There Is a New Kind of Plague
We’ve all heard of the plagues of grasshoppers and toads, rashes and such, but there is a new plague of such proportions that I hardly dare speak of it.
This new plague seems to be concentrated in our yard.
This is the plague of — get ready –the Acorns. There has never been plague like it. You take your life in your hands every time you go out the door, for you are pelted with acorns, BIG acorns, acorns like bullets that pow as they hit the cement. It is a war zone. But who is the enemy?
At first we thought it was the squirrels, that they were throwing acorns at us, but, after careful investigation, this does not seem to be the case. It is more likely that squirrels are running across the branches of our hundred and fifty year old oak trees, and, innocently, on their way, the squirrels are knocking off several hundred acorns destined to land on our heads.
Jack, the border collie, seems to take the acorn plague in his stride. In fact, he chews on the acorns and says they’re pretty good.
We think this new plague is not a punishment from God. We think it is because of all the rain we’ve had. This seems to be a good year for everything, weeds too. Besides, we know from Heavenletters™ that God does not send plagues.
Our crab apple crop is enormous too. If our crab apple trees were taller, we might have to run for cover from falling crab apples as well, but so far, thank goodness, we have been spared.
Acorns are really quite interesting. There is a little cap that pops off. And then a seedling starts to sprout — you can see it in one of the photos — and miraculously an oak tree grows. Who could imagine that a huge tree could come from one of these acorns.
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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