Master Designer

Science continues to be one of our favorite subjects as this year we are learning about Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day.  We have enjoyed learning in depth about whales, seals and sea cows, various types of fish, sharks and rays, crustaceans, mollusks, and cephalopods.  Recently we were studying about the many different kinds of mollusks.  Too bad Alaska's beaches don't have a more interesting variety of shells to offer. 

We talked about the mollusks we have seen on our beaches here, but then when we finished our chapter that not only talked about clams and mussels but also whelks, conchs, winkles, moon snails, cowries, wentletraps, and more, I remembered a bag of shells that I had stashed away.  I thought it would take a bit of searching, but I found it easily.

Never would I have dreamed of the treasures that small bag would hold!  All the mollusks we had discussed in science were in that bag!  I am continually amazed at how God surprises us!  What seems so small and insignificant as a science lesson, yet He cares about even those things.  He wants us to see that He is the Creator and Designer of all.  Nothing happened by chance, but there is a Master Designer of every living creature great and small.

The cup of small shells came from an island near Davao, Philippines.  The large nautilus and other shells came from the Palawan Islands, Philippines.