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And it was so that God created the sun and the moon on day four.

Can you imagine a world without the sun and moon? The global ecosystem wouldn’t be able to exist! Aside from that minor detail, there’d be no easy, natural way to measure time, and no concept of years. No waves in the ocean. No warm rays of sun on a cold day! Nothing for George Bailey to lasso in It’s a Wonderful Life. 

Earth would be pretty bland. And those plants from yesterday wouldn’t have been around for very long, that’s for sure.

Let’s thank God today for creating the sun, the moon, and the stars. (Even if you, like I, haven’t seen any of them behind the clouds today!)

On the Fourth Day…