the post about bees

Bees are divine.

I mean – lots of things are. 

Right?

     gravity.  love.  music.  banana pudding.  molecules.

But I’m talking about

bees.

(I told you I would eventually talk about this.)

For Kevin’s recent-ish birthday I gave him The Gift That Keeps On Giving.

Twenty-thousand bees.

(Give or take a few hundred.)

He’s talked about wanting to raise bees for years.

Well, actually, he’s talked about wanting to walk amongst swarms of bees without any protection and take the stings like a man.  Like a foolish man.  Like a foolish, unprotected man.  Like a foolish, unprotected man placing himself directly in harm’s way.

So I did what any loving wife would do.

I bought him a hive, ordered twenty thousand bees and signed us both up for a BeeKeeping class.

And it’s in the Monday evening class (with about one hundred other people – who knew beekeeping was so popular?) that we are learning how truly divine bees really are.

There are a lot of cool words associated with the bee culture. 

(apiculture.  propolis.  festooning.)

But even more cool is this – bees are exquisitely designed.

Yes.  Bees.

Annoying, painful little suckers that we try to avoid and feel no guilt in sending to an early demise. 

Bees.

They have honey stomachs.  Completely separate from their regular stomach. 

They live in community with one another and acquire just the skills their community most needs. 

They have hairy legs to collect pollen merely by landing on the flowers. 

They have five eyes. 

They can use their wings to cool the hive and they just know the correct temperature and work to maintain it. 

If the hive needs water, the precise right amount of bees will use their honey stomachs as water stomachs instead and sit in the hive and act as living water tanks.

And I’m just getting warmed up.

I’ll save some for another post. 

(And with twenty thousand bees, there’s bound to be another post.)

The point is . . .

God is a spectacular God

with a specific design

for a honeybee.

A honeybee.

And that kind of attention to detail

is

divine.