Cressy Morrison, who was the president of the New York Academy of Science, used to say that life was a wonderful architect, that rises up from the submarines deepness the castles of seaweed and corals. 

It is an extraordinary sculptor, who works each leaf and cut, branchlets and contours never repeated in any other flower or leaf found on Earth.

It is the patient music teacher who teaches each bird to sing its love song.

It is the sublime chemist, who gives each fruit its unique and incomparable flavor.

It is the capricious perfumer, who transforms smoke into aroma.

When declaring his belief in God, among other things, Morrison extols animal instinct, the mechanism of which we still do not know.

It is this instinct, for example, that makes several species of fish around the world swim against the current to spawn every year.

This is the phenomenon of piracema, a Tupi word that means the ascent of the fish.

At the moment of fertilization, which occurs externally, the female releases eggs into the water and the male releases sperm directly onto them.

After this, they go back down the river.

It is worth noting that eggs and larvae also make the journey in the opposite direction to the piracema, while they mature.

Who governs this movement? Who devised this plan? Who thought it up?

There are those who claim that it is a plan of nature. Certainly, but who schemed it?

If we observe a João-de-barro we become even more intrigued. When mating season arrives, it climbs the tallest tree to build its nest.

But before putting up the door, it goes to the top branch and places its beak in the direction of the winds, to know which way the winds will come in winter.

Then, it will open the door on the opposite side, in order to protect its offspring. And it never makes mistakes.

The couple builds the house with walls three to four centimeters thick, using damp clay, manure, and straw.

It is completely ready in eighteen to thirty days, depending on the rain or drought.

The finished nest weighs four to five kilos and can withstand up to one hundred kilos, in addition to heavy rain or heat from the sun.

Divided into two rooms, in one of which, padded with feathers, the female will lay her eggs.

If all this speaks to us of Divine Excellence, which is precisely the intelligence that established this, this small bird teaches us several lessons.

That of joint conjugal work. That of the preservation of the species.

That of solidarity and environmental sustainability. Because when the nest is abandoned, it is taken over by canaries, swallows, toucans and sparrows.

Perseverance, tireless struggle is another lesson. A friend observed that, after a terrible storm that destroyed cities, the house of the João-de-barro, on his property, was also destroyed.

Because on the foundation that was left, as soon as nature calmed down, the couple returned to the work of rebuilding their home.

Let us learn from these examples and, in everything, praise the Creator of these excellences that enchant our souls.

God, the Architect, the Sculptor, the Maestro.

Spiritist Moment Team, with transcripts of sentences
from the article Razões para crermos em Deus,
by Cressy Morrison.
May 8.5.2025