Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, April 11, 2025
A bit over a week ago on a morning walk, I glanced up and spotted this truly impressive jet contrail. I’d never seen anything exactly like it. I’ve often noticed contrails spread and scattered by the upper air, but never in such an artistic pattern – almost like calligraphy.
This whole photo speaks of creativity. The airliner which caused the contrail came together through the creative efforts of aircraft designers and other technicians. The house whose roof we can see was carefully planned and constructed.
But the trees, and the tint of the sky, not to mention the ice crystals which make up the brush-swirl, are all God’s artistry. And all we can do is stare in awe, and study the scene for all the evidences God does truly care.
As Ida L. Reed’s children’s song puts it:
O the lark sings in the meadow,
In the pleasant, flow-ry meadow,
And a happy song sings he!
Perched upon a bough so slender,
Hear him sing in accents tender,
“Oh He cares, God cares for me.”
God cares for me,
Bright is the day before me,
And ev’rywhere I go
Right well I know
His loving care is o’er me.
— Ida L. Reed