Knowing how things end and how they start

Hey Yall,

Our Heavenly Father is pretty smart. In case you didn't already know. He's created all kinds of worlds and knows all the processes of nature inside and out. Today we'll try to understand this new epiphany I had while watching a man shovel snow.

While watching this man shovel snow, I thought, ''Huh, God never seems to care where the snow is. He doesn't move the snow around with shovels and snowplows. He knows exactly where it falls, where it stays and what happens to it later on.'' This made me think of how man tries to move everything to have things his way. We store things, we throw things away, we shovel snow out of the way; but we never seem to care where it ends and where it starts.

I thought about how the snow will eventually go away because that's how God planned it. It may be annoying at times, but it can also be fun while it's around. We can learn to enjoy it or move it out of the way. Everything has a place for now, everything has a place for later. Heavenly Father knows the fall of a sparrow. He sees it and is very aware of it. He knows where that sparrow is going and where it has been as well. It's amazing that he knows that much about the sparrow, the snow and each of our lives. Pretty great, huh?

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