Hello world, wake me up to another good, good morning time to go.

Are you ready to explore God's wild and wonderful world?

Welcome to the Nat Theo podcast.

I'm your host, Aaron Linum.

I'm a certified master naturalist, Bible teacher, and author, and I am so excited to dive into God's

written word, the Bible, and his created world with you.

Do you have a collection? What are some things that you have enjoyed collecting? When I was a young girl, I loved collecting rocks, and now my own kids enjoy collecting rocks and fossils and gemstones.

In fact, they have an entire geology museum. They started this by

simply finding and collecting things that they found interesting. They discovered there were fossils

right where we live in Colorado. They found clam fossils and even a full ammonite fossil,

which was an amazing sea creature, similar to a Nautilus,

that is now extinct. He found it in the creek right in our neighborhood down the street from our

house. As my kids continued collecting rocks and fossils, they began displaying them around our

home, but they couldn't keep these wonders

to themselves. Several years ago, they decided to put their museum on display. They hand-wrote

flyers and delivered them to all of our neighbors and also mailed them to friends. On the day

of their museum, they moved all their displays out to our front yard, and dozens of

people, adults and kids, came to see what they had found. After that, the museum became a traveling

museum. Our kids displayed it at the local farmers market, and it spent an entire month on display at our local

library. Collecting things in nature is wonderful. It's a great way to learn more about God's

wild and wonderful world, and to share those wonders with so many people. Before we meet

today's guest and dive into nature museums, let's thank our sponsors who made this lesson possible, including CTC Math.

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