Photo and Commentary ©2026 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, January 9, 2026
This past Thursday, a gloomy and sprinkly one in the area where we live, made going to our local library very attractive. I drove there to work on my sermon, but a whole lot of other people had driven there too.
This meant that I couldn’t park my car in the lot segments closest to the library, but had to nose my car up against a woven wire fence which surrounds a water-pipeline right-of-way which transfers water from the Lake Youngs reservoir to Seattle.
Once I was done at the library I returned to my car, and this is what I saw through the windshield – a handsome deer with a rack of antlers. Out of sight to the left was another one just like him.
This got me thinking about the difference between our library and the real world. Our library is top-of-the-line, recently renovated and filled with all sorts of resource materials about animals and anything else you can think of. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can order from an entire network of King County libraries all over the area.
But you can’t wander among the shelves and see real nature in all its glory. To do that, you have to head outdoors, tiptoe over to the fence, and hope you’ll see just a bit of Eden.
God created these wonderful creatures and placed them in a Garden, and had no original need to fence them off from us. And one day – and it doesn’t seem it’ll be too long from now – He will create a new planet for us.
Want to learn – or review – what the Bible says about heaven? Click the link just below: