On World Meteorological Day we invite you to join us as we behold the beauty of our skies, captured in 10 weather photos by World Vision’s world-class photographers, and revere the Artist who set it all into place.
Psalm 8:3-4, 9 (NIV)
When I consider your heavens, …
Children run across a field as stormy cumulonimbus clouds pour rain to a village in Magoye, Zambia. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
the work of your fingers, …
Mount Ararat peeks through clouds on an overcast day in Armenia. (©2015 World Vision/photo by Laura Reinhardt)
the moon …
The full moon rises at twilight over the rural hills of Moyo, Zambia. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
and the stars,
Stars appears to streak and swirl in the night sky over a Mongolian ger (dwelling) as the earth rotates during a long exposure. (©2015 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
which you have set in place,
Layers of clouds curl and stretch at sunset over a Mongolian valley near Bayankhongor. (©2015 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, …
Stars twinkle in the early morning as a Zambian mother prepares tea in her kitchen hut. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
…that you care for them?
In Zambia, a downpour falls like a curtain near a woman walking home after collecting water for her family. (©2015 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
… LORD, our LORD…
Dark storm clouds recede in the east as sunset shines over Huanta, a city in the Andes Mountains of Peru. A statue of Jesus overlooks the breathtaking scene. (©2014 World Vision/photo by Eugene Lee)
… how majestic is your name…
Rays of sunlight slant through cloud breaks over Syrian refugee tents in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)
… in all the earth!
Blue sky peeks through white, fluffy clouds over a blooming potato field in Colomi, Bolivia. (©2015 World Vision/photo by Eugene Lee)