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Glimpses of Wonder™: Reflections on Jehovah’s Remarkable Design

An invitation to slow down, look closer, and be amazed.

 

Everywhere we turn, Jehovah’s handiwork speaks—sometimes in whispers, sometimes in wide-eyed wonder. Glimpses of Wonder™ takes you on a journey through the marvels of creation: from the clever mechanics of a horse’s leg to the glow of deep-sea creatures, from the balance of brain chemistry to the elegance of a falling leaf.

 

Some entries will make you laugh. Some will make you pause. But all of them aim for the same thing: to stir up awe—and give credit where it’s due.

 

Blending science, storytelling, and a deep love for the Creator, this series doesn’t just celebrate the natural world. It invites you to see what’s always been there… a little differently.

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The Precision of “Dust” (Atmospheric Optics) — a Glimpse of Wonder entry™ —

We wipe dust away without thinking.   It settles on shelves. It drifts through beams of light. It gathers in corners. We call it nuisance. Leftover. Refuse.   But dust becomes part of one of the most precise light displays on earth.   To understand why, we need to picture something simple: the atmosphere is not thicker at sunset — the sunlight simply travels through more of it.   Imagine standing in an open field at noon. The sun is high overhead. Its rays
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The Memory That Remains — a Glimpse of Wonder entry™ —

I come upon my own words as if I were a guest in a familiar house built while I slept. They are sound. They are careful. They honor truth. And as I read them, I feel something deeper than recognition — I feel gratitude. Gratitude not for my recall, which is imperfect, but for Jehovah’s generosity. He allowed accurate thoughts to be formed, expressed, and used, even when my mind no longer holds every step of the process. The wonder is not that I forget. The wonder is that Jehovah remembers — and
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The Wonder of Simultaneity — a Glimpse of Wonder entry™ —

Two lightning bolts strike. To Albert Einstein, this was more than a storm; it was a thought experiment that cracked open our understanding of time. He imagined two bolts flashing at opposite ends of a railway. To a person standing on the platform, the bolts might flare at the same instant. But to someone speeding past on the train, one flash comes first, the other a beat later. Which is correct? Both. Einstein’s lesson was that simultaneity is relative. Two observers can watch the same world an
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The Wind Blew — a Glimpse of Wonder entry™ —

Inspired by a riddle @Tortuga shared. July 7, 2016   The wind blew. Not a storm, not a gale — just one of those sudden, cheeky gusts that slips through the house when a door swings wide.   The frame on the shelf wobbled. A photo of a little girl, maybe five or six, holding up a fishbowl with both hands and a grin you could hear.   The frame fell.   The glass bowl shattered.   And Mary — Mary was the goldfish.   She didn’t
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There is only ONE first time.

A Glimpses of Wonder Entry     There’s something strange happening out there, and it’s not hiding in the woods or floating past Saturn. It’s closer. Much closer. In fact, it’s lodged right between a headline and a hashtag.   It’s the kind of thing you hear when someone leans forward and says with great conviction, "This is the first time this has happened since the last time it happened." Well. Stop the presses.   We used to reserve the word “first”
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