It is 3:30am October 30 and it is 10C as the long string of warm days continues well past their expiry date.

I have just come inside. I was in the back yard looking at the sky. Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, and Saturn were all clearly visible. I was able to identify several stars. This is all unusual because I live in a town, and the town lights usually make it difficult to see the sky. I stood in amazement at the sky, a wonderful encounter with the creator of the universe!

Bathed in the darkness of night, surrounded by the pinpricks of planet lights and stars, it was like I was standing in the centre of heaven itself.

There’s something about spiders that I do not understand.

At several places around our house webs appear everyday, no matter how often we walk through them or deliberately remove them. Why don’t they give up after a week or so?

But that’s not what I’m wondering about. Some webs stretch across a gap of over two meters (over six feet for those non-metric folk).

That’s what I don’t understand. How do they know that across a vast space is another pillar or hedge or bush on which they can anchor the opposite side of their web?

Do they have super-eyesight? Do they just wander aimlessly until they find a place to hook on and then remember it once they find it?

The other thing is, how does such a tiny creature produce that much webbing, over and over?

“For we live by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7 God’s Word Translation©).