I noticed something the other day that struck me a tad. There are trees that look deciduous, but I think they’re not (I haven’t taken the time to check). They’ve got leaves like the North American trees in a temperate climate, but a giant oak they are not. Then I realized all of the trees I could see were generally low to the ground. Then it hit me that these are shade trees.
I took a moment to marvel at God’s design. In a climate that gets unbearably hot, He’s made it so really thickly leaved trees grow low to the ground in order to provide shade for the people. It’s way more noticeably cooler here in the shade than the sun. Get a nice breeze going, and it almost is like air conditioning (sweating could be another one of God’s great inventions…as the sweat dries, your body cools). That made me think about some other things that seem to make intelligent design more reasonable.
When it gets really hot and humid, we get a storm. The rain cools down the air (and even washes the roads for us…) and the night is nice.
In a country that is very poor, fruit trees abound. There’s a mango tree nearly everywhere you look. Four our five mangoes drop in my yard every day, and we also have an orange and lemon tree. Native fruit here is dirt cheap. If people really need food, it’s not too hard to find for free.
The Bible says about God’s provision:
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.” – Matthew 6:27-29
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I'm Jason, and I like to write.