Tuesday

My marvelous wife, Evelyn, is a docent in the Abilene Zoo. She assists visitors of all types to give directions through the zoo, make explanations about the animals when needed, help in a variety of ways.

Several months ago, our zoo attained a coati or a coati mundi, a mammal of the genus Nasua, of tropical America, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body and tail and a long flexible snout. The staff began to ask what name we might give to the coati mundi. After some thought, Evelyn suggested--this is a coati MUNDI--Let's call this creature "Tuesday." Get it: a MONDAY [Mundi] with the name TUESDAY--and the staff thought that was a great idea. SO--go the the Abilene Zoo, and watch "Tuesday" doing its activities.

Let me encourage YOU to go to the zoo. Children learn so much by going through a zoo. We have been through zoos in Fort Worth, San Antonio, and even Singapore. This is all marvelous. Observe the great diversity of all kinds of God's creatures. How can anyone go through a zoo and not be amazed at God's creativity and wisdom and ingenuity?

Oh--by the way!!! GOD is the greatest ZOOKEEPER on earth. God's ZOO is from the North Pole to the South Pole, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, throughout every continent and every country and every city in the world. All kinds of creatures range throughout the world that most people never see them. YET, God cares for each of them.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Jesus often went to a zoo. Think about Jesus' magnificent messages. Here is just one example:

"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" If God cares for all he animals and birds and insects and other creatures on earth, you can count on it that God cares for YOU and me.

Go to your zoo. Tell me about your zoo experiences. Share this with your friends and neighbors and church and community. Give me some of YOUR ZOO STORIES.

John Willis