Craziness and Dragonflies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Took the middle schoolers tubing down the Shenandoah river yesterday.  It was a blast!  We covered just under three miles in a shocking 5 hours.  So we weren’t moving too fast…but we had a great time!  We were dunking each other, swimming, and going down the rapids over and over.

On one occasion, in the middle of it all, a damselfly landed on my arm and I noticed that it was feasting on a smaller bug it had caught.  Damselflies are the less-ablebodied version of dragonflies - not as fast of fliers.  So first I was amazed that these things can even catch bugs!  Anyway, I watched it chomp away until it completely ingested the bug right there on my arm.  In the middle of jr. high tubing chaos, I got to witness a unique part of God’s creation that I’ve never seen before.  I studied it’s bulbous eyes and huge madibles (don’t worry, they don’t bite humans!).  I saw how it passed over the wings of the bug and ate only the body.  I saw how it wasted no time in swallowing a bug 1/3 it’s size!

Thank you Lord for the intricacies of nature that remind me of your infinite-ness and your care.

~ by ryanmcbride on August 19, 2007.