As I was leaving the house for church last Sunday, I noticed that my Japanese Maple had a broken limb and was missing some of its bark. The tree is only about 3 feet tall and I've been so careful with it this year trying to keep it healthy and growing. We had a lot of rain that weekend, along with a few thunderstorms so I thought the damage was from the weather. A few days later my sister visited and informed me that there was a buck in my yard and that it is breeding season. So now I have a buck marking my yard as part of its territory and doing its best to kill my only Japanese Maple.
I'm a little upset, but I can't blame the deer. We live where they live and we share the land. As I searched the Bible I wasn't sure what God might have to say about this. The verse I found made me chuckle.
Psalm 29:9 The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, And strips the forests bare; And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”
Do you think the phrase 'and strips the forest bare' could be a reference to that buck striping the bark off my tree? Why not? I like knowing that in the most unusual events God already knew exactly what would happen.
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