Little Lights: Four Wonderful Things Upon the Earth (2): The Serpent

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of a serpent upon a rock;. – Proverbs. 30:18–19   Snakes can seem creepy and sinister as they slither through the grass, unseen until they are right by our feet. But there is something wonderful and mysterious about the way they move. They don’t swim like a fish. They don’t fly like a bird. They don’t have legs. Yet, somehow, they can move forward at incredible speed. That’s because a snake’s scales are...