{"id":803,"date":"2010-10-12T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T01:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2010-10-12T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T01:11:53","slug":"what-chicken-little-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"What Chicken Little Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

The walnuts woke me up last night.\u00a0 They fall from the tree beside our house\u00a0onto the roof,\u00a0making a terrible racket in the process.\u00a0 My poor roof suffers from the pounding.<\/p>\n

Every year I think “This is the last year I am putting up with that.”\u00a0 A few weeks ago I even crawled on the roof to take care of the issue, but it was already too late.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Walnut Tree Hangs Over My House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My plan was to cut off the limbs that were hanging over the roof with a pruning saw.\u00a0 As I started to saw on the limb, it started to shake.\u00a0 Not a good scenario with a bunch of ripe walnuts hanging over\u00a0my head.\u00a0 I briefly considered topping my bald head with a motorcycle helmet I had stashed in the garage.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps an acceptable\u00a0plan B, but I couldn’t deal with\u00a0the thought of my neighbors driving by and seeing me standing on the roof of my house wearing an old motorcycle helment\u00a0while playing dodge ball with a tree intent on pelting me with black walnuts.\u00a0 After a few more minutes of timid sawing and pondering the danger, I gave up and\u00a0slinked off the roof.\u00a0 The tree trimming would have to wait until next year.<\/p>\n

Now the walnuts are falling pretty regularly, making me flinch during the day\u00a0and waking me up in the night.\u00a0\u00a0 For some strange reason, it reminds me of Chicken Little who cried,\u00a0“The sky is falling!” when he got hit on the head by an acorn.\u00a0 As I narrowly\u00a0escaped being bonked by a black walnut, I realize Chicken Little might not have been as crazy as\u00a0he first seemed.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing:\u00a0 Chicken Little wasn’t wrong about the sky, he was just wrong about the timing.\u00a0 One day the sky will fall.\u00a0\u00a0 And when that day comes, I don’t want to be running around looking for a motorcycle helmet. \u00a0I want to be prepared.<\/p>\n

I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. \u00a0And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place . . . “For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0 – Revelation 6:12-14,17\u00a0\u00a0 NKJV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The walnuts woke me up last night.\u00a0 They fall from the tree beside our house\u00a0onto the roof,\u00a0making a terrible racket in the process.\u00a0 My poor roof suffers from the pounding. Every year I think “This is the last year I am putting up with that.”\u00a0 A few weeks ago I even crawled on the roof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,69,68],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-preparation","tag-sky","tag-walnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}