Glaucus Atlanticus

 

This little guy is called Glaucus Atlanticus. It is a species of sea slug that grows to around 35 mm. 
They float partially by means of an air bubble, which they swallow and store in their gastric cavity. They also have a rather unique defence mechanism - they store the nematocysts produced by jellyfish (their prey) in their own tissues to protect against predators.

Emma

Today my wonderful Emma turned six. She is and has always been a miraculous blessing to us!
I had a uterine deformity that makes it very hard to carry babies to term. Before Emma I had one live birth, requiring months of bed rest, and three miscarriages. We had given up on more children because the pain of their deaths became too much to carry.
 I am a devout Christian but have seen a lot of false preachers, especially those that call themselves "prophets". I do not run to see every 'guru' that comes along expecting miracles!
When a prophet from Africa came to our church I went to hear him without any particular expectation. The Spirit of The Lord moved mightily on me and I could not stop myself from crying throughout the service. At the end of the service the alters were opened for prayer and I went foreword.
Unable to talk through the tears I did not tell the man what I wanted or ask for anything. This man, that I'd never met, laid his hands on me and heard from God on my behalf. He described my uterus to me, exactly as it had appeared on a sonogram, and told me that God was moving the wall in my uterus over and  that I would have a daughter and a son.
Two years later, without the timing, planning, trying and worrying,that had always been in the past, I was pregnant with my Emma. There was no bleeding, cramping, bed rest or emergency visits. I carried her to term and gave birth to a strong healthy girl.
 Three years after that I gave birth to Noah, again without complication and even PAST due.
 I was healed.
Every time I look at my precious daughter I am reminded of just how real God is and that He DOES still work in our lives on a very personal level.
 There is no surgery to fix what was wrong with me. There is no doctor that could stop the pattern of death that was following me.
There is a God that can and HE did.

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is a...

lso the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

I believe in God.
I am not delusional.
I do not have "imaginary friends".
I am not miserable and looking for excuses.
I am not "blind".
I am not "gullible" or "ignorant".
I do not have a faith based on something that I have not experienced.
I personally know the person of Jesus Christ and see his power in my life.
No one has the right to tell me that I am 'imagining' God just because they are unfortunate enough not to have known Him, but there are plenty of people ignorant enough to try.
You do not see the wind but you can feel the wind, hear the wind and see the power of the wind.
The results of the wind blowing PROVES that the wind exists.
Try to use an Atheists logic and prove to me that there is no wind; it will be just as ridiculous as any of your efforts to disprove God.