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Awesome! Just yesterday it occurred to me that if, in studying the natural world, we can get some glimpse of the wonder of God’s ways, then the different fields of natural science can function almost as the four Gospels do. Each paints the mind of God in a slightly different light. Biology sticks out to me as the work of a truly enthusiastic and bewilderingly creative God. We can’t help but laugh or shrug “the Lord works in mysterious ways” at certain creatures and processes. Still, the marvels of living creatures seem to delight people of all ages and circumstances, and I can’t help but feel that’s part of Gods purpose for them.
Of course, that may just be the Biology teacher in me talking. But yeah, fun stuff!
AN EARLY SPRING
A small slim beetle, finely made
Cut from jet with diamond blades,
Obsidian in gleaming hardness
Perhaps asclera or oxacis
Entomologists would know -
The highlights on the thorax show
Stars inside the blackest night
And in the eyes, black bubbles bright
And comely questing long antennae
One specimen today, not many,
February late and warm
Though April is their time to swarm
O lovely lovely artifact,
A carver’s dream, an artist’s nap
From which to wake and see it look
As if an April it mistook
Pavel
February 23, 2012
I don’t like bugs, but I gotta admit that was pretty neat.
But… Hardness/oxacis? Either that word isn’t pronounced like it’s spelled or that doesn’t exactly rhyme.
Nice work either way.