Good morning, and welcome.
It is usually during about this time of the year that even
if the days remain hot, the nights become cooler. And the days themselves don’t usually become
as hot as in mid summer. This time also
usually heralds an increase in what we might term the autumn rains as cold air
masses clash with warm air masses in the middle part of the country, providing
the proper conditions for rain, and even some stronger storms.
September also normally brings a maturing of the outdoor
plant life. Plants often seed themselves
during this time. Some begin to die
back. Others change color. Plants that like cooler weather will grow
better during this time.
And it’s also a time for animals to change their
behavior. Squirrels and others rush to
store up food for the winter months.
Summer bird species begin their migration to warmer climates. Some animals find mates and propagate their
kind during this time. Crickets and
spiders look for warm places to make their homes. It’s a busy time for all of nature, getting
ready for the cold winter, ice and snow to come.
I don’t know if you look for these kinds of things in nature
or not. Such things may not interest
you, and that’s OK. However, I’ve always
been interested in observing the changes in nature and the environment as we
pass from one season to another. Part of
that interest is the fascination I have in wondering just how these animals and
plants know what to do and when to do it to prepare for the upcoming
changes. Yes, it is programmed into them
in some way, but where did that programming come from? And how did it happen that they were able to
make these adjustments in the first place?
Yes, I know all about the creation/evolution thing, and the
conflicts and arguments that arise from both camps regarding why things are the
way they are. And it’s not my intention
to get into that today. Regardless of
how God chose to do things, I earnestly believe that it was (and still is) a
God thing and not a random act of random molecules coming together in certain
random ways that just happened to produce all that we see and experience. And one of the big things I look at when I
think about this, besides what I know from Biblical literature, is the process
of metamorphosis. Without going into
detail, I will just say that metamorphosis is a truly mind-blowing and incredibly
complex process that screams out for a higher power to have created and
sustained it, however that creation and sustenance might have actually
happened.
The other mind-boggling thing is found in the Bible in the
book of Hebrews where the writer says that Jesus Christ “is the radiance of
God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by
his powerful word.” That phrase “all
things” is synonymous with the word “universe.”
Somehow, even now, everything we see and know, and all that we can’t see
and don’t know is being upheld and made operational by the power of Jesus
Christ.
I don’t know if you are a faithful Christian, nominal
Christian, agnostic, spiritualist, atheist, or some other religious
persuasion. What I do know is what I see
and perceive in life and living. And I’m
finding that Christianity has answers that nothing else has, for questions that
come from the souls of men and women everywhere in all times, all societies,
all situations.
The world we see…the universe we see…is just one thing that
points to the God of Heaven and earth.
May God bless you as you too continue down the path of life
into what some call meteorological autumn.
Keep your eyes, ears, heart and mind open as you observe all that
surrounds you. As Calvin said to Hobbes some
years ago in the final strip of the long-running comic “Calvin and Hobbes,”
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes old buddy.
Let’s go exploring !”
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