In my local newspaper I noticed an article about a woman at the Department of Fish and Wildlife in Oregon who studies fish scales. One little scale from a salmon tells the life story of the wide- traveling, delectable fish. Amazing! The rings are arranged much like a fingerprint, and can be compared to the concentric circles in trees. The rings and groups of rings on a fish scale determine the age, species, environmental conditions and other factors that have affected the fish. A cross section of a tree tells us the story of that tree. Amazing! If a scientist had a cross section of me under his microscope, what would my "rings" tell him?
Hopefully the scientist would see rings of humility, kindness, tenacity, strength, peace, love, compliance. Would he detect the rings of tough times? Times of plenty? Rings of sin? How about the ring of truth? I know he'd see 2 wedding rings for me. My childhood years would have made a Ring-Around-the-Rosey. I hope my ring-around-the-collar is not readily apparent. He might see a 3-ring circus or a hollow ring. For certain, plenty of onion rings. This makes me think of when I will meet God, face to face. He will read my rings, whorls, and loops, and He will see my life on earth and what I made of the life He gave me. Does THAT ring a bell? Thanks to the salmon and the trees, it helps me be better prepared for the day my rings will be read.
Salmon Scale
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An amazing stream of prose out of one little salmon scale! I loved the reference to whorls because I think that is a term in fingerprint science or maybe palmreading, but for sure an excellent descriptive. When the Lord looks at you, Kar, all He sees is His Son in the Center Ring.
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