Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, May 30, 2025
A couple of weeks ago on a trail walk with Shelley, I paused beside this ancient leaf. The trail is one where probably no leaf-blower has ever been felt, which is probably the reason that this leaf has been lying here for who knows how many years.
I’d never seen anything like this before. I knew that leaves had major veins radiating out from the main stem, but I had no idea of the incredibly detailed lacework you see as the smaller veins.
Think of it. One leaf, growing normally from a branch along with hundreds and thousands of others, each one with this staggeringly beautiful design, each little vein passing along sap, and helping change carbon dioxide into oxygen.
“My God loves me, and all of His wonders I see,” goes the children’s chorus. “Consider the lilies, how they grow,” Jesus once told a crowd of people. “They neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?” (Luke 12:27 – 28 NKJV)
These evidences of chillingly beautiful design anchor my trust in their Designer, and reinforce in my heart what Jesus says about God’s care.
To read more about this kind of faith, click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/faith