God works in mysterious ways

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God works in mysterious ways. I’ve heard that all my life. Any time I would ask my mother about some imponderable thing such as, “why are sunsets orange,” she would shake her head and say, “well, God works in mysterious ways.”

In addition to crediting God with such things as sunsets, rainbows and the four seasons, a friend recently pointed out some of His smaller mysteries.

Even numbers, for example. I didn’t know that every watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind. An orange has an even number of segments, an ear of corn an even number of rows, and every stalk of wheat an even number of grains.

He regulates flowers too. Every flower is designed to bloom at a different time of day. Linnaeus, the pioneer botanist, once remarked that if he had a greenhouse containing the right mixture of soils, temperature and moisture, he could tell what time of day it was by the flowers that were blooming.

Here’s one I learned as a sailor: Waves roll into the shore 26 times every minute regardless of the weather; and regardless of which sea it is.
Some pioneer ornithologist discovered that the hatching time of bird eggs varies. Canary eggs hatch in 14 days, chicken eggs in 21, ducks and geese in 28 and the parrot and ostrich in 42 days  – all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week.

Here’s something you can check for yourself: When a horse gets up, it rises first on its front legs. A cow, on the other hand, gets up first on its hind legs.

What does all this mean? I guess it means that God works in mysterious ways.

 

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For those of you on the edge of your seats wondering what my favorite newspaper headline was from last week’s edition, as it was inadvertently cut off in the edit, it is “Miracle cure kills fifth patient.”


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