What a busy and wonderful couple of days this has been into a much needed vacation. I decided to begin this blog at this wonderful spot. As usual, I have found my flowing water to just refresh and relax me. This wonderful waterfall that I am standing behind and under was in the butterfly house of the Botanic Gardens in Huntsville, Alabama! And here is a butterfly that I actually captured OUTSIDE of the butterfly house!
We visited the National Corvette Museum. We have seen this place many times on our drives to south, but we have never stopped. In 2014 they had a major disaster when a sink hole actually happened inside the museum and they lost many, many of the cars on display. This is what it looks like today when you walk inside the area that was destroyed.... tape lines on the ground. It reminded me of "crime scene" tape. It was a LARGE area of the main part of the room. As you can see, they discovered an under ground cave during the repair. This is no big surprise since Mammoth Cave is a short distance away. But it was very odd to walk over that line and think about the ground just opening up and swallowing the cars.
And here is one of the few cars that they were able to pull out of the hole......
As you can see, it is a mess. There were three cars like this on display. Quite an interesting place to visit. There was even a place where you could look through a glass window, down into a deep tunnel into the bottom of the sink hole. It was really looking into the depths!
This morning we visited the US Space and Rocket Center. And we did a lot of looking into the heights! Because we are really old, (you know - the age when astronauts and space and the moon landing was a really big deal) this really interests us! We have visited the Kennedy Space Center more than once, but this was our first visit to this center. While it was interesting, there was a lot of similar stuff that we have seen in Florida. It was still a really neat place to visit.
So we went from looking into a really deep sinkhole, deep inside the earth to peering out into space. With all of that to consider, we wandered the paths and breathed in the warm air in the quiet Botanic garden. It was good to stop and reflect on all that we had seen in the last two days. I was so glad to find that rushing waterfall. I stopped and sat on a stone bench beneath that flowing water. All I could think about was how amazing this world is and how wonderful our Creator is! There is no other way to explain the ground just opening up. Or to imagine the wisdom and patience and courage that God has given to man to discover how to blast into space and come back again.
That amazing butterfly started off as an ugly worm, crawling on a branch. And now it is a beautiful creature, flying free! How thankful I am that Jesus has promised us a transformation - a metamorphosis - not unlike that butterfly. We can look forward to a new, wonderful body and a whole new world opening up for us. Yes, we have so much to look forward to! The greatest news is that this Eternal Life starts as soon as Jesus becomes your Savior. We just need to learn how to live!
Jesus, thank you for speaking to me through all of these things. Thank you for time away from our routines. Holy Spirit, help us all to remember that our eternal life doesn't start when we die - but rather it is ours now! Thank you for butterflies that remind us of your working in us all to transform us into your likeness. And thank you Jesus for rivers of living water! Amen
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