Reading the Kelp

"Oh-oh," I said, glancing at the threatening sky as we headed out a couple of days ago to our kayak trip, "It looks like a storm is brewing."
Josh, who was accompanying my daughter Asherel on this kayak adventure quickly responded, "Hmmm, well let me read the kelp."
"Read the kelp?" I laughed. Josh is forever making me laugh. He comes out with the quirkiest responses to the most mundane discussions.
"Well you can predict weather with kelp, but if you don't have kelp you can use sawdust too."

I shook my head, wondering what circuitry in Josh's brain allows such deadpan humor to fly out with such regularity.
"Like reading the tea leaves?" I chided him.
"Well maybe, anything that absorbs moisture will swell when there is high humidity, like when a storm is coming."
I was silent. That actually sounded plausible, in fact probable.
"How do you know these things, Josh?"
"I read," he answered.

Once again, I am forced to conclude that life is simple. It is we who make it hard.

When crazy Josh makes more sense than the entire staff of weather forecasters, it is time to pause and reflect. Sometimes simple, obvious clues are staring us right in the face, and we purposely ignore them and look in the most unlikely places for absurd connections. I find the whole how life began issue to be of this caliber of clue hunting. In my humble opinion, all the clues point to a Designer, a Creator. Science at the microscopic level continues to expand the case for impossible odds of all the minute mechanics of even the smallest levels of cellular organization to happen just by chance. Yet, it is not "science" if all the design clues point to a Designer. That is "faith".  I don't know. That logic just drives me nuts.

"In my experience," continued Josh, "Weatherman are usually wrong. Kelp is never wrong."

Psalm 19:7

 ⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect,
   refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
   making wise the simple.