Good Thursday morning! The heat wave receded a bit for us yesterday. I hope that means relief will spread east and south too. The heat dome that is over much of the nation covers a million square miles. I can't even visualize what an area that size would be. Speaking of big numbers, when Lake McConaughy reached 100 percent the other day, I got my little figurin' pen out and added up how much the reservoir weighs (yes, some days I have too much time on my hands) the number is 2,369,894,452.832 tons. That seems like a whole lotta water to me, but I still have trouble getting my mind around that number. Of course we can start on all the numbers involved in space and... well, we can just make our poor little minds go 'pop'. The lake volume has been coming down since Monday though, I would imagine the evaporation alone must be enormous. And, no, I'm not even going to attempt to put a number on that. Numbers in this world are just too big for us.
We live in this world since birth, growing and learning along the way until we realize one day that we understand so little of the planet we are standing on. Each of us can decide to spend a lifetime trying to know or understand everything about some part of some part of the whole world. A geologist might specialize in some type of rock or formation. A biologist might further specialize into some part of the plant or animal kingdom, but not even the specialists can claim to know all about their chosen field. We know so little, and then listen to those who claim to know so much, and still end up understanding only a little. What's the use of learning then? For one thing, God's creation amazes me more with every small bit I learn about it.
Even in our lifetimes the knowledge of how this world works has increased dramatically, and there is so much more to learn. We read Genesis and we chose to believe that God did exactly as he said he did, but we are not satisfied with that. I don't mean that we cannot be content with the fact that God created this place, but that we have a desire to find out more. When God created the oceans, how exactly did he do that? What makes water work like it does? Why so much salt water? We can even get personal with our wondering. Why does dust make me sneeze? Many other questions might occur to you, but we lack so much understanding of the way everything works with everything else. Yet, we can still look around at the awesome work of the Creator and like King David praise God for his wonderful works. We don't have to know everything to praise God and give him the glory. God gave us the ability to decide whether to curse the part of his Creation that we can sense, or to just step back and say, "Wow!"
Yes, it is more difficult to stop and say that when you are out in the 100ยบ plus heat; other than "Wow, I think I'm melting!" that is. The curse that came upon God's Creation after Adam sinned means that we might have to seek shelter to preserve life under some conditions. However, the world has not stopped turning, the seasons will come in their time, and one day God will tell Jesus, "Go get 'em, Son!" Maybe God will use a more majestic idiom than I do, but however God says it, we will be going home!
Enjoy the day, preferably from a nice cool place!
Bucky
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