The Common Table: Finding “Beautiful Thoughts of God” in Nature

Books to Inspire Love for and Exploration of Nature Together

My mother raised me with pine needles in my hair, Old Man’s Beard stuck to my clothes, and swirls in my heels filled with dirt. I knew I wanted the same for my own children. I longed to show them the power of God from the mulch under their feet and the laced branches above their heads.

But I later learned it’s one thing to grow up as a child in the woods and it’s another to be the mother watching her children play in the woods.