October 26, 2024 - Creation

I predict that this will be a colder than normal winter. I haven’t heard that from the weather folks on TV. I haven’t checked the Farmers Almanac. I base my prediction on one thing:
The Beaver squirrels. For the last two months they have been going crazy.
We have at least six hickory trees in our yard. In the previous four years that we have lived here I have fretted each fall because of the number of hickory nuts and shells that have fallen from those trees. The grass hardly grows under one of the trees because of the nuts. I have scooped up wheelbarrow loads of them.
But not this year. I have seen only two hickory nuts this fall on the ground.
In the past two months we have seen the residue of the cracked-opened shells of the nuts so thick on the driveway that it looked like it was a different color.
So, I am predicting a cold winter. I guess that we will see.
One evening recently I drove home after dark. The full moon was stunning.
A couple of days ago Teresa and I took a short boat ride on Beaver Lake. The water was like a piece of glass and a few of the trees were beginning to turn.
God’s creation is an amazing thing.
It never ceases to amaze me that the people who are considered to be the smartest are actually foolish.
Paul writes in Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
How can anyone be so foolish to think that all this just happened or evolved from an amoeba?
As I was glancing at the full moon, while trying to keep my eyes on the road, I couldn’t help but think of what heaven must be like. If this world has amazing splendor, I can’t imagine what splendor awaits us in heaven.
Until then, I will enjoy a moonlit night, the beauty of fall, and wait to see if the squirrels actually do know what is coming.