Pollen

I've got a friend who is really suffering with allergies these last couple of weeks. I went swimming in the ocean and for two days I had to swim out through this layer of floating yellow pollen that kind of clung to my skin. My just washed car needs another wash or a serious rain. We complain about pollen and yet without it plants could not reproduce and we would lack all of our food supple in no time. We eat plants for food and we eat animals that eat plants for food. Without reproducing plants the food supple would end. We have had a number of serious earthquakes recently and they are indeed tragic. If, however, the earth did not have a moveable crust the heat and pressure inside would eventually lead to an explosion of the earth. The same process, in an over simplified way, is the cause of mountain building. Elevation causes rivers and the deposit of sediments which eventually lead to oil and coal deposits which enabled our modern industrialized world. Often we ask the question why in so many different situations, because we are trapped in a small picture world ignoring a large picture Lord. Even in the details of our individual lives we get caught in the small picture of our day to day circumstances without seeing the big picture of eternity. We forget that God is good all the time; all the time God is good.