GOD IN ALL: PART 2 - DOWN TO EARTH

Down to Earth

Resplendent orange and hues of blue

Blanket the Earth and insulates

Life giving air;  our atmosphere!

Layer upon layer; each its own traits

Wind mixer, water carrier

Light absorber, light scatterer

Delicately balanced with care

Created by God with flair!

Water moving by God's hand
Everything has been pre-planned
Sun, plants, seas and lake
Work together to evaporate
Vapors rise; condense to clouds
Then return down to the ground
Growing food for us to eat
Water fit for us to drink

He thunders with majestic voice
Sends storms with terrifying force
A billion volts within one bolt
A lethal yet critical part
Cooling our earth, cleaning our air
More ozone for our atmosphere
And soil enriched with nitrogen
God's power and plan have no end!

Ice crystals form as vapors freeze
Hexagon prisms float to the ground
Each snowflake uniquely conceived
God's storehouse of treasures confound
as no two the same can be found
An image from Him lies within:
Although as scarlet be our sins
Snow white they turn when we believe

God created plants on day three
Solar powered food factories!
Seeds soar and swim and scatter
take root as embryos break free
Knowing up from down through dark matter
Sun seekers defy gravity
Photosynthesis! How efficient!
God alone knows these intricacies

Plants can poison; plants can heal
Carnivore types can eat a meal
Aloe Vera our burns relieve
Nutrients from plants we receive
Earth's oldest living forms are trees
God's garden created with ease
Beauty comes through flowers that dance
Plant oxygen gives life a chance

Love planned before time began
With Jesus our sacrificed lamb
©Tavane Nelson, Jan 11, 2020

The space-shuttle Endeavour against the multiple colors of our atmosphere as seen from space.

While researching our universe and earth, I couldn't get over how delicately everything works together to bring everything in balance for life, including all aspects of the universe, our solar system, our sun, our moon, our atmosphere, our water cycle and climate system. Everything God does is perfect, and conducive to life. This perfection and design is more than anything mankind can do! The beauty and complexity still shines through, in spite of our destruction, pollution and lack of care for our planet. Does anyone consider what a miracle our water cycle is? Even though 90 percent of our precipitation comes from the ocean, the salt is left behind during the evaporation process, so that it is able to come back down as rain to water all the plants and our crops on the earth, instead of killing them! Our underground fresh water aquifer systems and lakes and oceans are also all replenished. Without the complex water cycle, there would be no life on earth! Without the complicated design of plant photosynthesis providing oxygen, there would be no life on earth!

The bible speaks to God's miraculous creation:

"The heavens are Yours, and Yours also the earth;

 You founded the world and all that is in it"

Psalm 89:11

"He spreads out the northern sky over empty space;
He suspends the earth over nothing"
Job 26:7

"Who can understand how He spreads out the clouds, 

How He thunders from His pavilion?
 See how He scatters his lightening?
Job 36:29-30

Our God has infinite creativity! Enjoy this amazing information: 

The atmosphere:

• The atmosphere is made up of five main layers - the Exosphere (where satellites orbit), the Thermosphere; (where we see the Northern Lights) the Mesosphere; (where meteors burn up) the Stratosphere; (where the Ozone layer is) and the Troposphere (where all weather occurs).
• The Troposphere is about 10 km high above sea level and appears orange from outer-space, not blue.
• Without the atmosphere, life on earth would be impossible. It filters in the perfect amount of sunlight needed for life. It also had a perfect balance of 78% Nitrogen to 21% oxygen needed for plants, animals and people to breathe.
• The atmosphere regulates weather patterns and moves all water back to earth as rain.

The Water Cycle:

• The water cycle begins with evaporation which creates water vapor, which is then condensed into clouds. Water molecules then collide together until they become too heavy, and then fall to the earth in the form of rain, snow, ice or sleet.
• The water cycle also regulates the earth's temperature.
• The water cycle get's all it's energy from the sun.
• 97% of the water on earth is salty.
• 90% of precipitation comes from the oceans.
• Of the 3% of our fresh water, 2/3rd is frozen in the polar icecaps. Much of what is left is found in underground aquifers.
• Plants also contribute to the water cycle by transpiration or sweating.
• 434,000 cubic km of water evaporates from the oceans each year.
• About 1/6th as much evaporates from land water sources.
• About 398,000 cubic km of precipitation fall on the oceans each year and 107,000 cubic km through land sources each year.
• Water stays in the atmosphere on average nine days.

Thunderstorms:

• 100 lightening bolts hit the earth every second.
• There are 16 million thunderstorms per year and 16,000 at any given moment.
• Thunderstorms and rain wash away many pollutants out of the air through the production of ozone.
• Thunderstorms act as a natural air conditioner - without them the earth would be 11 C degrees warmer.
• Farmers love lightening as it produces nitrogen which acts as a fertilizer.
• Thunderstorms also balance the Earth's electrical field in a way not yet understood by scientists.
• Even though lightening can carry up to 100 million volts, a strike is only the size of a quarter. It appears much bigger because of how bright it is.
• Lightening bolts are about 27,000 C degrees, which is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun, and more powerful than an atomic bomb. 

Snowflakes:

• Snowflakes start as tiny ice crystals that form from water vapor that freezes in the atmosphere.
• Each snowflake is made up of about 200 ice crystals.
• All snow flakes have six sides (hexagonal).
• Snow at the north and south poles reflect heat into space, acting like a mirror from the sun.
• Billions of snowflakes fall in every snow storm.
• There are 35 basic types of snowflakes.
• The odds are 1 trillion trillion trillion to 1 to find any two snowflakes the same since the start of weather.

Real snowflakes as seen under a microscope

Plants:

• An estimated 80% of our oxygen comes from phyto-plankton (single celled plants) found in the ocean. The rest come from land plants.
• About 10% of our atmosphere's moisture comes from plants.
• 70,000 species of plants are used for medicine.
• 80,000 species are edible.
• Gravitropism is the power plants have to defy gravity. Generally plants grow upward to sunlight. However, if they have a narrow range of light, plants will even grow upside down to reach the light!
• Trees are the world's largest organisms with a bristle-cone pine located in Inyo National Forest, California, estimated at over 5,000 years old. Methuselah stands at the age of 4,848 in the White Mountains of California.(their exact locations are kept secret)