Rain Drops

Last night I stayed up after I got home from my meeting to water the plants and cook some tomato soup stock. (I really wanted to get two batches done before my housemate returned this weekend.) As I went to sleep I thought I would need to jump out of bed first thing in the morning and move the garden hose from one section of the garden to another.

When I woke up this morning, I heard the pleasant patter of rain drops outside. Actually, it was pouring! I was delighted. The garden would be fully watered without my assistance. This left me enough time to finish the soup stock, clean-out the fridge, and empty the compost and garbage. Since my housemate has been gone for almost two weeks, and I have been gone all except for one evening, stuff that would normally have been eaten long ago looked more like science experiments than food. Fortunately there really wasn't very much that was bad (since we knew our schedules would be crazy, we didn't put a lot in the fridge to begin with).

Rain is amazing stuff. Water is amazing stuff. Praise God for His wonderful creation! One of the greatest arguments for creation is water. Without it there would be no life as we know it. It defies many of the "standard" rules for how things act, and if it didn't, we wouldn't be here to talk about it.

On another note, the mole pushed up another mound yesterday and a third one last night while I was sleeping! I called the mole man again and left another (more urgent) message.

While I find the mole to be another remarkable creation of God, (the amount of dirt they can push around is incredible,) I would really like them to stay out of our yard! I guess this is the "subdue and rule the earth" part of God's commandments for man.

Note for my more literal-minded readers: I consider a commandment of God to be anything He tells (or has told) us (as in man and sometimes more specifically Christians) to do (or not to do).

P.S. Did you ever think about the fact that God's very first commandment to us was to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." - Genesis 1:28