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Okay, went to mass one evening last week. A moth was seen flying around the wall that rises in back of the tabernacle, not just by me either. I think that there are light bulbs back there so the moth must have been drawn. At any rate, the moth went behind the wall and I didn’t see it again.
Then, yesterday, I saw several moths all congregating amongst the leaves. not just in one place of the woods, either, in SEVERAL places. As the snow showers were beady-balling down, the moths were trying desperately to get under the half-frozen autumn mat.
Could it be that the two very warm fall days of very recent past fooled the moths into coming out of their cocoons too early? They might have thought it was spring already. I have already had flower bulbs pop in January because it had been too warm and they were “fooled”. The tender green spouts then, of course, froze pretty stiff when winter came back again in all its vengeance. Thus, no flowers ever bloomed from them when eventually the “real” spring arrived.
I wonder, though, could a worm have developed into a moth so quickly? A worm could have made his cocoon, say, the end of September. Maybe, though, these were "late"moths that I saw that were just in the end stages of life, having already lived a whole season of spring and summer.
I’ve learned, though, that when I see strange stuff like this, I have to take notice. I’ve never ever seen moths in November like that.
So I went to the Word and saw that moth is mentioned in it a few times.
This brings me to my question…
In Hosea, there it says some scary stuff about Ephraim.
Where is or what is Ephraim? Plus, this reading is before the “come” verses, a phrase which our Master Bishop has been talking about lately in his teachings on Paul.
Plus, this whole word “entrusted” came up and persists. The sermon Nov 16th talked of Proverbs “entrusted” being the “same word” as that used for John the Baptist and Jesus himself. I think it must have been a Greek word that had shades of meaning and then is translated to English “entrusted.”
So, I’m putting this into my bonnet and thinking about this all. Maybe someday I’ll understand better.
I’d like to know about Ephraim, though, please. Thanks
Then, yesterday, I saw several moths all congregating amongst the leaves. not just in one place of the woods, either, in SEVERAL places. As the snow showers were beady-balling down, the moths were trying desperately to get under the half-frozen autumn mat.
Could it be that the two very warm fall days of very recent past fooled the moths into coming out of their cocoons too early? They might have thought it was spring already. I have already had flower bulbs pop in January because it had been too warm and they were “fooled”. The tender green spouts then, of course, froze pretty stiff when winter came back again in all its vengeance. Thus, no flowers ever bloomed from them when eventually the “real” spring arrived.
I wonder, though, could a worm have developed into a moth so quickly? A worm could have made his cocoon, say, the end of September. Maybe, though, these were "late"moths that I saw that were just in the end stages of life, having already lived a whole season of spring and summer.
I’ve learned, though, that when I see strange stuff like this, I have to take notice. I’ve never ever seen moths in November like that.
So I went to the Word and saw that moth is mentioned in it a few times.
This brings me to my question…
In Hosea, there it says some scary stuff about Ephraim.
Where is or what is Ephraim? Plus, this reading is before the “come” verses, a phrase which our Master Bishop has been talking about lately in his teachings on Paul.
Plus, this whole word “entrusted” came up and persists. The sermon Nov 16th talked of Proverbs “entrusted” being the “same word” as that used for John the Baptist and Jesus himself. I think it must have been a Greek word that had shades of meaning and then is translated to English “entrusted.”
So, I’m putting this into my bonnet and thinking about this all. Maybe someday I’ll understand better.
I’d like to know about Ephraim, though, please. Thanks