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Thursday, January 16, 2025
The ferns growing on this small building caught my eye. I wouldn’t want plants growing on my roof. But I have heard of sod roofs where grass grows, so it seems kind of natural that ferns would grow on the roof of a building in a rain forest.
I half expected all the men who visit this area would have those long bushy beards that are becoming popular. But fortunately, I didn’t see any.
It makes me think about our true natural environment. In the Mine Craft game, it is possible to walk or run from one environment to another such as from a sand biome to an ice biome to a mushroom biome. In real life, we can drive from a forest environment to a city environment in a short time.
However, our true environment may be where we can be free to be honest, to relax, to encourage, and to find the good in other people. We can have some of those good things now, even though at times we have to be unnaturally defensive in a troubled world. When we follow God’s guiding from the Bible, we can get a glimpse of a truly natural environment.