The High Calling of God

My husband and I recently visited the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT. This is a fabulous place if you want to see some of the most beautiful ocean creatures that God has created.  All of the animals have been rescued for one reason or another.  They bring them in and care for them and get them ready to be released back into the wild.  Occasionally there are those who are unable to go back into their natural habitat.  In the penguin area we learned that they recently had several penguins that could not be released.  They call it "human imprinting".   Because these animals were rescued at such a young age, the animal believes that their rescuers are their parents. They have the human imprinting upon them and they just are not able to go out into the wild on their own.  We also learned this while we visited a bird sanctuary this summer.  When people find injured birds and take them home, the birds become so used to the humans taking care of them that they lose their ability to

"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) My husband and I recently spent a couple days in the Mystic, CT area. While there we visited the Mystic Seaport Museum.  There were many historical boats and ships on display.  We even were witnesses, and could have been actively involved in helping to raise one of the sales on a large whaling ship. There is a lot of history in this area which my husband and I enjoy.  They had several exhibits of shipbuilding and they were even restoring the Mayflower II at the time we were there.  We saw films and pictures depicting how some of these ships were made and/or restored.  It took years of planning and then more years to actually build the ship.  But to watch how these ships were built was really remarkable.  How intricate the woodworking, the mechanics and everything else that went into it really made my mind want to exp