I had just walked out to the road to drop a letter in the mailbox. Overhanging the mailbox were masses of graceful blossom-chains from the nearby Big-Leaf Maple! Wow! God’s creation is amazing!
On my way back to the house I noticed a slug in the grass off to the side. Nasty horrible little creature!
Immediately God stopped me: “Don’t call what I made ‘nasty’!”
You know that firm voice deep in your soul, where you know you’ve just been scolded. It was that. I stopped abruptly in my tracks. Right away I apologized to God for calling His creation “nasty.”
If God didn’t think the slug was nasty, then I shouldn’t think so either.
I bent down for a closer look. Well … the slug did have a pretty cool camouflage design. God’s creativity was in that. And check it out … something I’ve never noticed before … the slug has a little hole on its back so it can breathe. I didn’t know slugs needed to breathe. I guess that could be cool. And check it out … it has little antenna on its head which wave around as it travels, helping it to navigate. That’s cool.
What is it exactly that slugs do?? Then I realized all those thousands of Big-Leaf Maple leaves which fell in the fall … that little slug was a vital part of helping all that plant matter decay and break down. Now that is definitely cool.
God … You are amazing! Thank You for beautiful blossom-chains hanging heavy in profusion! And, yes … thank you also for little slugs.
