God in the Garden

GOD IN THE GARDEN

                                            
         Five year old Lilly came running.  “Daddy, daddy, come and look.  You made a mistake.”

         “A mistake?” Joey laughed. “I don’t make mistakes.”

         “Well look!  You said there would be tomatoes on this plant, and pumpkins on that one!  But there are just flowers.”

         Joey looked at the garden.  The pumpkin vine and the tomato vines had blossoms.

         “There’s supposed to be flowers first, then tomatoes and pumpkins. Look, the squash plant has a big orange flower too.”

         “And the flower has a bee.  Look, lots of bees!”

         “They’re from Mr. Neville’s beehives.  They’re doing their job.”

         “Job? Drinking honey is their job?”

         “Well they think it is.  But you see this yellow stuff?  That’s called pollen.”

         “That makes Uncle Tim sneeze?”

         “Yeah, that’s the stuff.  See, the bees like pollen, too.  They gather it up in tiny baskets on their legs and take it home with them.”

         “Look, that one has pollen on its legs!”

         “Yeah, well that’s their job.”

         “Why?”

         “Because the flowers like the pollen from other flowers.  The pollen mixes with the baby seeds in the flower and makes them grow.  Then the tomato grows around them, see?”

         “And we eat the tomato.”

         “Right.”

         “God really made some complicated things, didn’t He?”

         “He sure did. He could make a planet and a sun and He could make a bee with pollen baskets on its legs.”

         “And the bee gets food out of the flower and when it does, it makes the flower grow seeds and tomatoes.”

         “And then we get food from the same flower.”

         “And more seeds for next year.  Daddy, God is real smart, isn’t He?”

         “He sure is.  There are some pictures in the encyclopedia that show how it works.  Want to go look it up?”
         

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