I have a hard time conceiving of what God is like even though there's a part of Him, but I suspect only a very minuscule part of Him, that's described in the Bible. His traits are immutable, and also both communicable and somewhat in- communicable. But for a child, He is conceivable and communicable sometimes in the simplest and also most profound ways. One of God's incommunicable attributes is His sovereignty, His full and complete control over all things, including the seasons and its weather. Seasons come and seasons go, and this most recent season for us has been barren of rain for consecutive months, reeking havoc for fire fighters. All that changed on Friday, and we've now had numerous much needed showers dumping several inches of precipitation throughout our lands. Of all people, I should know and remember that it is God who causes the seasons to cycle, the wind to blow, and the rain to fall (Zechariah 10:1), but I often take these things for granted and just assume they're natural acts of our atmosphere and ecosystem. For Poppy, she knows there is a God and that He is in control of these things, and can only assume that God harnesses the weather with familiar objects and simple tools. That's why she asked her mother the other day, "Does God stand above the clouds with a big watering can when He causes it to rain?" In a very real sense He does, and in a very real sense that's the way I'd like to think of God when the inexplicable needs explanation.
Out of the mouths of babes.
Tom
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