It's Coming!

It’s Coming Earl Plato
Have you ever noticed that in late fall and winter some oak trees retain crisp, dry leaves long after maples, elms and the walnuts have become bare skeletons? Come next spring we will find that the strong winter winds and the early spring rains have not stripped the oak branches completely. This is what I read recently in a devotional booklet. "As springtime progresses, something wonderful happens. Tiny little oak leaf buds start appearing at the tips of the twigs, pushing off the dried remnants of the preceding season. What the winds and rains could not do without the forces of new life do from within." Now you don't have to wait to spring in order to make new resolutions for 2006. We all know that at times old habits, that are not essentially good for us, cling to our lives with the same tenacity as those old oak leaves. The message is: "The best way to get rid of a bad habit is to start a good habit." The writer also says, "Rely on God and He will give you the strength to push off our old habits." That's good advice.
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Why is the sky blue? Air is transparent which is why we can see the stars at night. In the day time the seven main colours of the spectrum except blue travel directly to our earth’s surface. The blue is scattered by gas molecules throughout the sky, thus the blueness to the atmosphere. The sun when viewed from outer space is white but it appears yellow from the earth’s surface. Why? All the colours of the spectrum minus the blue and you get the yellow hue from our perspective on earth. It seems inconceivable that the sky should change so much that it should endanger our lives. But there was a time when the atmosphere couldn’t support life. Believe the Bible or take the evolutionist view - both agree that the earth at one time did not support life. That security blanket for one thing is not thick. Breathable air ends eight kilometres (5.9) miles above sea level. It’s not comforting to know that the sky’s composition has become precarious. The ozone layers especially at the polar points are thinning. The process is allowing increasing amounts of ultraviolet radiation to strike our planet’s surface. That’s not good for human kind. Increasing amounts of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by industrialized nations (Canada is one of the leaders) are blamed for the “green house” effect. There is a gradual warming caused by the heat trapped underneath an ever thickening layer of gas. Keep cutting the trees down and see the process ever increase. Plants and trees are necessary in saving our planet and the sky’s atmosphere. Plant more and more trees in the years ahead. Builders, if you can save trees on a new building lots do so. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and give off life saving oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. “Blue skies keep smiling at me.” Enjoy this day in nature,