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| Rebekah made this pic |
This evening I was driving, no, I was riding -- Rebekah was driving. We were on our way to her cousin's piano recital, and I was noticing all the tons of cumulus clouds, and I thought,
If Rebekah would take a picture, she wouldn't forget what to write down on her weather experiment later. She's the kind to put it off until later, much later, like a few
days! until she's totally forgotten what kinds of clouds were even there! I even made a few pics as Rebekah was driving.
Then I realized, I could put the pictures in a slideshow, and show the progression of different kinds of clouds leading up to precipitation! Why didn't I think of this last week?
I've lost a week of our weather experiment!
Rebekah liked the idea.
Now she won't have to remember what clouds there were, lol. Because she knows if it has to do with pictures and my blog, I'm on it.
So we were talking about science -- no,
I was talking. Rebekah was listening to Rush Limbaugh.
She's like her Daddy. I told her one day we'll have two cars, and she can ride with her Daddy. ha. I don't dislike Rush.
I just like quiet. I just like not having to talk above the radio. =) She says since she's driving, she can control the radio. I tried to tell her that's not what I'd told her. I had said someday she would have her own car, and
then she could control the radio. Well, I let her listen until the commercials came on anyway. =)
But back to the science. I was talking about how we've been doing Apologia Physical Science (a favorite subject if you haven't realized that yet!), and we've spent weeks learning about atoms, molecules, properties of water, atmosphere, clouds, the way water behaves and more, and it's all come together now that we're studying the weather. We've spent weeks learning about what God was able to do
just like that!
I warmed to my subject. "And think of all those people whose job titles end with
-ology, 'the study of' something. How many millions of dollars have been spent discovering something God has known all along! I mean, just think about it! Everything we've learned, even about water's polarity -- clouds could not happen if not for that!" We were turning up Cousin A's driveway, and I glanced over to see her bemused smile.
"You aren't really interested in this, are you." It was a statement. But I smiled as I said it. =)
"Well, no, I mean it
is interesting..."
"But not as much as it is to me!" I laughed.
We have fresh drinking water because of evaporation of fresh water from the salty ocean as a result of
water's polarity, therefore cohesion. God knew we needed the
Coriolis effect of the wind so weather would be dispersed and varied. It's all so complicated and works so smoothly together! And never fails. It works every time. Sometimes violent, sometimes calm, but the process is certain.
I love knowing how it works. He allows us to endeavor figuring out the intricate ways and means.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. Ecclesiastes 1:13
And God knows how pitiful is my understanding of His great universe!
He gave us all this for our wonderment. Isn't HE great!!!!
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Nothing new is brought forth, and all old things are forgotten.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:5-9
