February 13 – February Agates

Fresh from my Lake Superior Agate Studio, actually, it’s just a bowl of agates on my desk. I used my phone camera to arrange these agates to display their stunning beauty. 

Lake Superior agates get their beautiful bands when silica-rich fluids slowly fill small cavities left by gas bubbles in old volcanic rock, leaving behind layers of quartz. This slow, steady process creates the detailed, wave-like designs that make these agates so interesting and beautiful.

Why does God make such beauty and then hide it in the earth where it’s not likely to be found? Like much of creation, he makes it for His pleasure and His Glory. Once in a while, we get to enjoy it too.

“As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.” Job 28:5–6

Agates are wonderful works of art created by the hand of God, and so are you. You are more highly valued than the gemstones of the earth. The Bible reveals this better than nature can, and together they tell a story of God’s providence throughout time.