It is quiet in our neck of the woods. It rained, softly, last night and as I write the sun is starting to shine of Cherry Hts. with blue sky peeking through the clouds. 

Even as I write it starts shining on Carla’s garden.  But the temperature remains in the low 40’s in her garden thus it will take a lot longer to melt down so she can start preparing the ground.

Still it picks up her spirits and encourages her that this, too, will be over and she can once again ‘play in the dirt.’

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Job 12:7-10   “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

⁹ Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.”  KJV

I woke up this morning thinking of how great God the Creator is and how much He means to me.

We are so used to modern conveniences we forget there was a time when everything was made by the hand of man, one item at a time.

Craftsmen learned as apprentices, they put their own special talents into everything they did.  They did some amazing work with tools most people today don’t even know what to call them.

But, if something broke it couldn’t just be replaced, it had to be redone.  Not like today where we just go down to whatever store has replacement parts and buy it and then fix it – or have someone do it for us.

Now robots and other machines do the work on a lot of the things we buy.  One of the shows I watch from time to time is called “How it’s made” while not going into a lot of details, it does show us how things are cookie cutters, same thing over and over again in hard to believe speed and accuracy.

Think for a moment about Oreo cookies, two wafers with a white sugary substance in between.  Whether you buy a package on the west coast, east coast, north or south it is the same product.  It has the same number of cookies that are identical in every way.  Millions of packages a year are sold.

If your car is in an accident, or has mechanical difficulties you take it to the shop; the body man or mechanic goes to the phone and orders a replacement part.  It is exactly what he is taking off the car and once done it is hard to see any difference.

Science is finding incredible things about this world.  The tools used show us the minutest things are so well designed that quite frequently they can take something from one body and place it in another with little adjustment.

They are finding that OUR bodies, in many ways, can be replaced by a transplant.  Hearts, lungs, livers and other body parts are taken from one person and placed in another person with little adjustment.

Blood transfusions are done every day and we don’t consider the wonder of that medical discovery.  The human body is so well engineered that we can, in many cases, repair the body so that it will be very difficult to see that it was done.

God’s designs are far more superior to anything man has ever, or will ever design, yet, the world gives credit to the scientists and engineers for designing these interchangeable parts but says that man came about, over a period of time, from a rock and just evolved into this incredibly complex body of work.

The animals, the birds and even insects have been the catalyst for many inventions as the inventors have watched and learned from them.

We call it nature as if it is some ‘thing’ that does all this instead of the God that spoke the universe into being and all that is within it, with the exception of man who He formed from the clay of the earth and breathed life into him.

If we praised and thanked God even have as much as we do mankind this world would be in a much better place.

Later, Art (-: