Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Black Widow in a Fallen World
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Black Widow? Yellow Jackets.. the Fallenness of the world. 
We were just finishing our reading of the story of Ulysses ( aka Homer's Odessy), when Trin announced that there was a spider living in our bathroom window. Not a surprise- spiders are welcome in our home so long as they are not dangerous ones, and our min pin Fiona does not find them ( she LOVES to snack on those!).
I like spiders, and run to see what it is whenever one of the kids says they found one, quick to identify it.
When I went into the bathroom, there was a yellow jacket wasp in the window.
Trinity is allergic to those, so she hurried out of the bathroom, but I called her back, to tell me where she saw the spider, and we found it. The wasp was walking around and bumped into its web. I called the boys so that we could watch the spider catch its meal- or possibly its death.
I wasn't sure who would win.
The arachnid may indeed be a black or brown widow. The shiny carapace and it's color somewhere between bloody-brown and black fit the description, but she didn't let me see her belly as she worked for her meal, so the markings are unknown, while she is the right size and shape, she is doing us a service at the moment and I do not wish to disturb her.
Black widows are not usually deadly, but can make you sick. We KNOW the wasp is dangerous and able to kill one of our family members, and I don't believe in killing any creatures who are not a definite danger to us.
She has eaten her larger adversary, leaving nothing but some wings and part of an exoskeleton.
I think she has caught prey with stingers before.
She certainly seemed to know what she was doing when she shot her web at the intruder, wrapped it up a bit and then retreated to her corner, patiently waiting while the wasp struggled.
RJ asked why God does this.
I replied that it is sin coming into the world that has caused this scary thing to happen.
He asked me " So, it's ok for a spider to kill things and eat them?"
I told him that it isn't the way that God designed things to happen. Sin ruined things so that animals eat each other, and they have to do that to survive in this messed up place.
Sin hurts everyone.
It costs.
It messes up everything it touches, and you just don't know how far it will go
and what it will touch.
Earlier in the week, Harley had mentioned that he didn't understand why the ancient Hebrews had to feed their pets and live with them and love them,
but then later sacrifice them on the altar.
It's because sin costs. God wanted us to get that. It hurts.
I just finished reading a book called Three by Tedd Dekker.
It is about the sin struggle, the good, the bad and the man caught in the middle.
It was well written, and a great page turner.
How messed up IS creation, really? and does it get worse with every sin we commit or omit?
Creation groans in expectation of Christ's return.
What has sin cost us in terms of the beauty of creation? It is mind boggling to me that all this wonder we see surrounding us in nature is in fact warped and tainted.
Do we love the beauty or do we just think it is the beauty, because our sinful natures are actually in love with the messed up parts of the universe?
Is the increase of wickedness foretold in scripture causing all of these disasters we see in nature, weather changes, extinctions, etc, or are they simply a result of the first sin?
Is the fact that sin changed things what evolutionists are really looking at when they think that every creature evolved from some other type? |
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