Opus 2024-349: Buried Mysteries

What mysteries still remain to be uncovered?  Are there any significance?  Will they make any difference?

I’m thinking in terms of the quiet this morning.  It’s before 6 o’clock, still dark and I’m not even hearing cars drive by.  It’s almost enough to make you think the rapture took place and you got left behind.  I’m contrasting this with the incredible volume of insects that we had just a month or so ago as the cicadas came out of the ground and were going through their mating rituals.  It was incredible.  I’ve never heard such noise made by just insects.  Today there is nothing.  Who in their right mind would have thought of looking underground for an insect that grew for 13 or 17 years, depending on the breed, before it came out to reproduce.  Who would have dreamed of such a thing?

Yet there it is.

Does this knowledge change the way you live?  Does it make the world any different, really?  Probably not.  There may be some application that we haven’t thought about yet, another mystery.  But generally, no.

Which brings me back to the original question, what is still out there?  I believe there must be many, many things that we haven’t even begun to think about.  It will require some major thinking outside the box or just plain accidents.  Maybe it is buried treasure. Think of it is a buried city that the archaeologists are investigating because people digging a new sewer line, uncovered something they hadn’t seen before.

Think of how complex God is and how many things He has planned out, and the way the world works together that we’re just beginning to discover.  I think of that silly illustration about a butterfly, fluttering its wings and causing a tornado around the world.

Think.  Explore.  Investigate.  Wonder.

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