Have you spent any time looking at natural beauty? We are talking about plants, animals, rocks, mountains, clouds, etc. Including bugs, rainbows, waterfalls, and waves and sand at the beach.
We have carved lots of roses on eggs, both ostrich and emu eggs. We go outside and pick roses, buds and leaves. Just outside in our garden, we have picked to look at the details. Have you observed the texture of petals? They look soft and velvety. Have you ever pulled a petal, put it on your hand-thumb to first finger-then pop it with your other hand flat? Well that's kid's stuff, right?! Anyway, the colors blend and grow darker as petals dive into the center. The stiffness and bends of the inner petals to the bowing of the outer petals. Then have you noticed the green raps of the buds hold up the outer bowing petals, as if they might fall apart if the rose opens too far. Some leaves have small shaped pricks along the outside edge. Well we will let you check out roses for yourselves.
Recently, we carved an ostrich egg covered in oak leaves. So we took a trek outside to pick up a few leaves. Some green, orange, brown, crinkly, some flat, some with curled edges. Oak leaves can have (what I call) abrupt cuts that make points. Some are just leaf shape that has a point at the pinnacle. The point is, have you ever thought how are these made? How do roses always produce roses and not carnations? Or acorns from oak trees budding Redwood trees. There is a large debate now called "Intelligent Design". The case for "Intelligent Design" is to challenge us to look at the world around us and think about how, when and the why of its' beginning and maintenance.
As I carve fish and birds and flowers into egg shell, I am reminded of how hard it is for man to make anything as beautiful as the world's creatures. Then even more impossible for the creation to make anything new from itself. Oh, have I mentioned "Intelligent Design" was suppose to introduce a "Creator" into the creation/evolution debate?! Here in America, the science community wants to hold on to "provable science" theory, the politican wants to hold on to the "Power Pole" while the clergy holds to variable possibilities because they don't want to explain "God's work". Define for yurself how a rose plant maintains its blooms in texture, shape, color, smell (or lack thereof) and beauty. Oh I have not mentioned thorns on roses bushes. Well thorns are the result of man thinking he knows more or better than his "Creator". Genesis 3:14-19 especially verse 18, the thorns are a curse put on creation because of man's disobedience against God. In the same judgement came pain in child birth and work-both aspects of life man has tried to rid himself of.
Speaking of curses, the government of the United States of America is aggreviating the nation of Israel to give ip its' soverignity. In Genesis chapter 12, verses 2&3 and chapter 27, verse 29, God tells Israel "I'll bless those who bless you , and curse those who curse you". Why would a government seriously oppose the Creator of the world, the judge of men's actions, and the promise keeper?
Now those of us who grow roses, we know that thorns are not the only miserabe thing about roses. How about aphids, black spot fungus, suckers and dead heads? All of these things except maybe deadheads are consequences of sin against God; including the work that it takes to care for all those curses. Go out and look at flowers or leaves and try to duplicate one of these fascinating creations. Meanwhile, I'll try to interpret Creator God's handywork in my carving and hope you enjoy Wildrose Creations egg-citing objects.
