![Blazethecurious's tweet photo. DID YOU KNOW??
Immediately after giving birth, a woman’s body triggers a violent, automated remodeling process that forces her uterus to shrink by half its size in just 24 hours, and completely downsize to its pre-pregnancy state in a few weeks!
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to roughly 500 times its original volume and grows from the size of a small pear to the size of a large watermelon, weighing about 2.5 pounds. The moment the baby and placenta leave the body, the brain releases a massive flood of the hormone oxytocin.
This hormone triggers aggressive, structural contractions, essentially an intense, internal cleanup crew, to clamp down the open blood vessels where the placenta was attached, preventing the mother from bleeding to death. This rapid shrinkage is a biological phenomenon called INVOLUTION. Let me explain 👇🏾👇🏾
1. The Recovery Method[ Shrinking at the Cellular Level]:
To get rid of all that extra muscle mass built up during pregnancy, the body doesn't just stretch back like a rubber band. It physically DIGESTS itself from the inside out via autolysis.
Specialized enzymes break down the massive excess of protein within the uterine muscle cells. The broken-down material is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and eventually filtered out through the kidneys. Because of this massive cellular recycling act, a woman actually urinates out the excess weight and protein of her stretched-out uterus during the first week postpartum.
2. The "Period" That Isn't Actually a Period: Lochia
Many people assume that the heavy bleeding a woman experiences for weeks after birth is just a massive, delayed menstrual period. Mechanically, it is completely different. It is an entirely separate biological discharge called lochia.
When the placenta separates from the uterine wall, it leaves behind a raw, circular wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. Lochia is the body's natural method of sloughing off the dead tissue, extra blood, and mucus membranes left over from housing a fetus while that massive internal wound slowly heals over the course of six weeks.
3. When Does the Actual Menstrual Period Return?
The return of a woman’s actual, true menstrual cycle depends entirely on a hormonal tug-of-war controlled by how she chooses to feed her baby.
A. The Prolactin Suppression:
If a mother exclusively breastfeeds, her brain continuously pumps out high levels of prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production. Prolactin acts as a natural biochemical brake system on the reproductive organs, blocking the hormones needed to trigger ovulation.
Because of this hormonal blockade, many breastfeeding mothers will not get their actual period back for 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer.
B. The Formula Route:
If a mother formula-feeds or combines feeding methods, her prolactin levels drop rapidly within a few weeks of birth. Without that hormonal brake, the ovaries wake back up almost immediately, and a normal menstrual period can return as early as 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.
C. The Postpartum Trap: Because ovulation (releasing an egg) happens roughly two weeks before a woman actually bleeds, a postpartum woman can become fully pregnant again before she ever sees her first official postpartum period arrive... Be careful gals 😂
SUMMARILY!
Giving birth turns a woman's body into the ultimate biological recycling plant, where the uterus aggressively auto-digests its own muscle cells so the mother can quite literally pee out the remnants of her temporary watermelon-sized organ.
Hopefully you've learnt something new today?
Cheers 🥂 😅
The Medic Who Writes™🌚](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAHgXBWkAA0FRh.jpg)
![Blazethecurious's tweet photo. DID YOU KNOW??
Immediately after giving birth, a woman’s body triggers a violent, automated remodeling process that forces her uterus to shrink by half its size in just 24 hours, and completely downsize to its pre-pregnancy state in a few weeks!
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to roughly 500 times its original volume and grows from the size of a small pear to the size of a large watermelon, weighing about 2.5 pounds. The moment the baby and placenta leave the body, the brain releases a massive flood of the hormone oxytocin.
This hormone triggers aggressive, structural contractions, essentially an intense, internal cleanup crew, to clamp down the open blood vessels where the placenta was attached, preventing the mother from bleeding to death. This rapid shrinkage is a biological phenomenon called INVOLUTION. Let me explain 👇🏾👇🏾
1. The Recovery Method[ Shrinking at the Cellular Level]:
To get rid of all that extra muscle mass built up during pregnancy, the body doesn't just stretch back like a rubber band. It physically DIGESTS itself from the inside out via autolysis.
Specialized enzymes break down the massive excess of protein within the uterine muscle cells. The broken-down material is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and eventually filtered out through the kidneys. Because of this massive cellular recycling act, a woman actually urinates out the excess weight and protein of her stretched-out uterus during the first week postpartum.
2. The "Period" That Isn't Actually a Period: Lochia
Many people assume that the heavy bleeding a woman experiences for weeks after birth is just a massive, delayed menstrual period. Mechanically, it is completely different. It is an entirely separate biological discharge called lochia.
When the placenta separates from the uterine wall, it leaves behind a raw, circular wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. Lochia is the body's natural method of sloughing off the dead tissue, extra blood, and mucus membranes left over from housing a fetus while that massive internal wound slowly heals over the course of six weeks.
3. When Does the Actual Menstrual Period Return?
The return of a woman’s actual, true menstrual cycle depends entirely on a hormonal tug-of-war controlled by how she chooses to feed her baby.
A. The Prolactin Suppression:
If a mother exclusively breastfeeds, her brain continuously pumps out high levels of prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production. Prolactin acts as a natural biochemical brake system on the reproductive organs, blocking the hormones needed to trigger ovulation.
Because of this hormonal blockade, many breastfeeding mothers will not get their actual period back for 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer.
B. The Formula Route:
If a mother formula-feeds or combines feeding methods, her prolactin levels drop rapidly within a few weeks of birth. Without that hormonal brake, the ovaries wake back up almost immediately, and a normal menstrual period can return as early as 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.
C. The Postpartum Trap: Because ovulation (releasing an egg) happens roughly two weeks before a woman actually bleeds, a postpartum woman can become fully pregnant again before she ever sees her first official postpartum period arrive... Be careful gals 😂
SUMMARILY!
Giving birth turns a woman's body into the ultimate biological recycling plant, where the uterus aggressively auto-digests its own muscle cells so the mother can quite literally pee out the remnants of her temporary watermelon-sized organ.
Hopefully you've learnt something new today?
Cheers 🥂 😅
The Medic Who Writes™🌚](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAHgV9WwAAoev2.jpg)
![Blazethecurious's tweet photo. DID YOU KNOW??
Immediately after giving birth, a woman’s body triggers a violent, automated remodeling process that forces her uterus to shrink by half its size in just 24 hours, and completely downsize to its pre-pregnancy state in a few weeks!
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to roughly 500 times its original volume and grows from the size of a small pear to the size of a large watermelon, weighing about 2.5 pounds. The moment the baby and placenta leave the body, the brain releases a massive flood of the hormone oxytocin.
This hormone triggers aggressive, structural contractions, essentially an intense, internal cleanup crew, to clamp down the open blood vessels where the placenta was attached, preventing the mother from bleeding to death. This rapid shrinkage is a biological phenomenon called INVOLUTION. Let me explain 👇🏾👇🏾
1. The Recovery Method[ Shrinking at the Cellular Level]:
To get rid of all that extra muscle mass built up during pregnancy, the body doesn't just stretch back like a rubber band. It physically DIGESTS itself from the inside out via autolysis.
Specialized enzymes break down the massive excess of protein within the uterine muscle cells. The broken-down material is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and eventually filtered out through the kidneys. Because of this massive cellular recycling act, a woman actually urinates out the excess weight and protein of her stretched-out uterus during the first week postpartum.
2. The "Period" That Isn't Actually a Period: Lochia
Many people assume that the heavy bleeding a woman experiences for weeks after birth is just a massive, delayed menstrual period. Mechanically, it is completely different. It is an entirely separate biological discharge called lochia.
When the placenta separates from the uterine wall, it leaves behind a raw, circular wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. Lochia is the body's natural method of sloughing off the dead tissue, extra blood, and mucus membranes left over from housing a fetus while that massive internal wound slowly heals over the course of six weeks.
3. When Does the Actual Menstrual Period Return?
The return of a woman’s actual, true menstrual cycle depends entirely on a hormonal tug-of-war controlled by how she chooses to feed her baby.
A. The Prolactin Suppression:
If a mother exclusively breastfeeds, her brain continuously pumps out high levels of prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production. Prolactin acts as a natural biochemical brake system on the reproductive organs, blocking the hormones needed to trigger ovulation.
Because of this hormonal blockade, many breastfeeding mothers will not get their actual period back for 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer.
B. The Formula Route:
If a mother formula-feeds or combines feeding methods, her prolactin levels drop rapidly within a few weeks of birth. Without that hormonal brake, the ovaries wake back up almost immediately, and a normal menstrual period can return as early as 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.
C. The Postpartum Trap: Because ovulation (releasing an egg) happens roughly two weeks before a woman actually bleeds, a postpartum woman can become fully pregnant again before she ever sees her first official postpartum period arrive... Be careful gals 😂
SUMMARILY!
Giving birth turns a woman's body into the ultimate biological recycling plant, where the uterus aggressively auto-digests its own muscle cells so the mother can quite literally pee out the remnants of her temporary watermelon-sized organ.
Hopefully you've learnt something new today?
Cheers 🥂 😅
The Medic Who Writes™🌚](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAHgVVXMAAu28e.jpg)
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The moment a stubborn dog recieved the shock of its life and decided to bark like a goat 🐐
Crazy moment .
@MrCharlesky I have all that boss
All of a sudden IGBO WOMEN are trying to debunk being wick3d…. 90% of y’all are evilllllll.
I lived with my father’s cousin, I literally turned to bone…. I lived in fear, I was scared to eat or move my body, I woke up at 4am daily and slept at 1am the next day.
I was older than her kids but I get to pick the last when things are shared or I do not get a share at all, na why meat pie making Dey traumatize me, na that last flour wey bakers dey throw for pan wey I dey chop, I didn’t get to involve in treats, I don’t get to eat noodles with them, I also had to babysit.. my routine.
1. Wake up at 4 and prep them for school.
2. Take them to school and make sure to be home before 7:30 as she leaves for work.
3. Take care of the baby until she sleep
4. Clean everywhere, wash toilet, clean kitchen and start prepping lunch before they return.
5. Bathe the ones I can and allow the boys bath themselves.
6. Force them to eat and spend the rest of my evening making sure I shout and gather all the papers they tear because if she finds any on the floor when she returns, I go chop ceramic plate for head or body.
7. Prepare dinner, water for her bath, and the kids, make sure I eat after everyone has eaten, make sure the house is cleaned to the brim before I sleep at 1am.
8. Get someone (her first son about my age) not allow me sleep because he was molesting me.
(Me report ke?🤣🤣🤣 the day I summoned courage and told a mature neighbor that confronted her, I chop better beating wey blood pour eeeh, say I dey accuse her son) so I took the battle upon myself to fight the boy every night…. I literally sleep half sleep because of fear.
I still loved them, I still nurtured the baby, she was so healthy and didn’t like even her mom feeding her but me, at 6 months plus, she had started walking… she never fell ill….. I was super careful with her.
The baby dedication they did, I wasn’t allowed to come out, na one of the pikin sneak food come give me..
I had so many times the daughter took blame for my error in exchange for my Sunday meat and she never got punished.
I remember one time I was exhausted and the baby woke up and crawled out… I nearly disappeared.
My sister came to visit me, cried when she set her eyes on me and swore never to leave me behind…. I felt like I was going to paradise because I couldn’t say I wanted to go and was praying she never leaves me, what if she didn’t take me away and I got beaten for saying I wanted to go???
I was accused of being possessed because I always smiled when I was being beaten to a pulp… no tears.
I was taken to a church for deliverance and pastor said I wasn’t possessed
This woman still had the guts to come to my village to request that I return, that I take good care of her kids…
Auntie MABEL, God will p[[[unish you shaaa.
© Golden Chiamaka Achu
@MrCharlesky i'm interested boss
@MrCharlesky I'm interested sir
DID YOU KNOW??
Immediately after giving birth, a woman’s body triggers a violent, automated remodeling process that forces her uterus to shrink by half its size in just 24 hours, and completely downsize to its pre-pregnancy state in a few weeks!
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to roughly 500 times its original volume and grows from the size of a small pear to the size of a large watermelon, weighing about 2.5 pounds. The moment the baby and placenta leave the body, the brain releases a massive flood of the hormone oxytocin.
This hormone triggers aggressive, structural contractions, essentially an intense, internal cleanup crew, to clamp down the open blood vessels where the placenta was attached, preventing the mother from bleeding to death. This rapid shrinkage is a biological phenomenon called INVOLUTION. Let me explain 👇🏾👇🏾
1. The Recovery Method[ Shrinking at the Cellular Level]:
To get rid of all that extra muscle mass built up during pregnancy, the body doesn't just stretch back like a rubber band. It physically DIGESTS itself from the inside out via autolysis.
Specialized enzymes break down the massive excess of protein within the uterine muscle cells. The broken-down material is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and eventually filtered out through the kidneys. Because of this massive cellular recycling act, a woman actually urinates out the excess weight and protein of her stretched-out uterus during the first week postpartum.
2. The "Period" That Isn't Actually a Period: Lochia
Many people assume that the heavy bleeding a woman experiences for weeks after birth is just a massive, delayed menstrual period. Mechanically, it is completely different. It is an entirely separate biological discharge called lochia.
When the placenta separates from the uterine wall, it leaves behind a raw, circular wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. Lochia is the body's natural method of sloughing off the dead tissue, extra blood, and mucus membranes left over from housing a fetus while that massive internal wound slowly heals over the course of six weeks.
3. When Does the Actual Menstrual Period Return?
The return of a woman’s actual, true menstrual cycle depends entirely on a hormonal tug-of-war controlled by how she chooses to feed her baby.
A. The Prolactin Suppression:
If a mother exclusively breastfeeds, her brain continuously pumps out high levels of prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production. Prolactin acts as a natural biochemical brake system on the reproductive organs, blocking the hormones needed to trigger ovulation.
Because of this hormonal blockade, many breastfeeding mothers will not get their actual period back for 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer.
B. The Formula Route:
If a mother formula-feeds or combines feeding methods, her prolactin levels drop rapidly within a few weeks of birth. Without that hormonal brake, the ovaries wake back up almost immediately, and a normal menstrual period can return as early as 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.
C. The Postpartum Trap: Because ovulation (releasing an egg) happens roughly two weeks before a woman actually bleeds, a postpartum woman can become fully pregnant again before she ever sees her first official postpartum period arrive... Be careful gals 😂
SUMMARILY!
Giving birth turns a woman's body into the ultimate biological recycling plant, where the uterus aggressively auto-digests its own muscle cells so the mother can quite literally pee out the remnants of her temporary watermelon-sized organ.
Hopefully you've learnt something new today?
Cheers 🥂 😅
The Medic Who Writes™🌚
![Blazethecurious's tweet photo. DID YOU KNOW??
Immediately after giving birth, a woman’s body triggers a violent, automated remodeling process that forces her uterus to shrink by half its size in just 24 hours, and completely downsize to its pre-pregnancy state in a few weeks!
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to roughly 500 times its original volume and grows from the size of a small pear to the size of a large watermelon, weighing about 2.5 pounds. The moment the baby and placenta leave the body, the brain releases a massive flood of the hormone oxytocin.
This hormone triggers aggressive, structural contractions, essentially an intense, internal cleanup crew, to clamp down the open blood vessels where the placenta was attached, preventing the mother from bleeding to death. This rapid shrinkage is a biological phenomenon called INVOLUTION. Let me explain 👇🏾👇🏾
1. The Recovery Method[ Shrinking at the Cellular Level]:
To get rid of all that extra muscle mass built up during pregnancy, the body doesn't just stretch back like a rubber band. It physically DIGESTS itself from the inside out via autolysis.
Specialized enzymes break down the massive excess of protein within the uterine muscle cells. The broken-down material is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and eventually filtered out through the kidneys. Because of this massive cellular recycling act, a woman actually urinates out the excess weight and protein of her stretched-out uterus during the first week postpartum.
2. The "Period" That Isn't Actually a Period: Lochia
Many people assume that the heavy bleeding a woman experiences for weeks after birth is just a massive, delayed menstrual period. Mechanically, it is completely different. It is an entirely separate biological discharge called lochia.
When the placenta separates from the uterine wall, it leaves behind a raw, circular wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. Lochia is the body's natural method of sloughing off the dead tissue, extra blood, and mucus membranes left over from housing a fetus while that massive internal wound slowly heals over the course of six weeks.
3. When Does the Actual Menstrual Period Return?
The return of a woman’s actual, true menstrual cycle depends entirely on a hormonal tug-of-war controlled by how she chooses to feed her baby.
A. The Prolactin Suppression:
If a mother exclusively breastfeeds, her brain continuously pumps out high levels of prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production. Prolactin acts as a natural biochemical brake system on the reproductive organs, blocking the hormones needed to trigger ovulation.
Because of this hormonal blockade, many breastfeeding mothers will not get their actual period back for 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer.
B. The Formula Route:
If a mother formula-feeds or combines feeding methods, her prolactin levels drop rapidly within a few weeks of birth. Without that hormonal brake, the ovaries wake back up almost immediately, and a normal menstrual period can return as early as 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.
C. The Postpartum Trap: Because ovulation (releasing an egg) happens roughly two weeks before a woman actually bleeds, a postpartum woman can become fully pregnant again before she ever sees her first official postpartum period arrive... Be careful gals 😂
SUMMARILY!
Giving birth turns a woman's body into the ultimate biological recycling plant, where the uterus aggressively auto-digests its own muscle cells so the mother can quite literally pee out the remnants of her temporary watermelon-sized organ.
Hopefully you've learnt something new today?
Cheers 🥂 😅
The Medic Who Writes™🌚](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAHgYPWIAAGa0K.jpg)
God bless this woman.
All those oloshos and greedy girls will think that she's speaking French.
Una eyes go peel.
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I have a friend named Segun. For three years, Segun was the "ghost" of our group. Every time we planned a hangout; a birthday dinner, a football match, or just drinks on a Friday night, Segun would be the first to say "I'll try to come" in the group chat.
But he never did.
He’d stop replying to messages by 6:00 PM and wouldn’t surface until the next morning with a "Sorry guys, I fell asleep" or "Something came up."
Eventually, we stopped inviting him. We started calling him "unreliable." We even had a separate group chat without him because we felt he didn't value our friendship anymore.
"Success has entered his head," one of us said. "He’s too big for us now."
Last year, my life hit a brick wall. I lost my job in the same month my mom needed surgery. I was drowning.
I called the active friends; the ones I went clubbing with every weekend. They were sympathetic, sure.
"Oh, so sorry bro," "God will provide," "I’m a bit tight this month, but let me see what I can do."
Then they stopped picking up my calls. I guess I became too heavy for the fun group.
One Tuesday night, around 11:00 PM, my doorbell rang. I opened it, and there was Segun. He wasn't wearing a designer shirt or looking big.
He looked tired. He was holding a nylon bag with some groceries and a small envelope.
"I heard what happened," he said, walking in.
I was defensive. "Oh, now you show up? You haven't picked my calls in months, Segun. You missed my housewarming, you missed my birthday..."
He sat down on my sofa and sighed.
"I know. And I’m sorry. But I wasn't at those parties because I’ve been working three shifts. My younger brother is in the university, my sister is doing her nursing program, and my dad’s pension hasn't been paid in two years. I am the only one, man."
I went quiet.
"I don't reply to the group chat at 7:00 PM because that’s when I start my night job as a delivery driver. I don't come for drinks because the money for one bottle of beer is my sister’s transport fare for a whole week. I didn't want to come and be the 'vibe killer' by telling you guys how much I’m struggling. So I stayed away."
He placed the envelope on the table.
"It’s not much. Just something to help with your mom’s meds. I’ve been saving it to fix my car’s brakes, but the car can wait. You’re my brother."
I looked at the envelope, then at the man I had spent months bad-mouthing. The friends who "showed up" for the fun were nowhere to be found when the lights went out.
But the friend who was "too busy" was the only one who showed up at midnight.
See, we often measure friendship by presence at parties, but the truest friendships are measured by presence in those difficult times.
You shouldn't be too quick to judge the friend who has gone silent.
Sometimes, they are using all their energy just to keep their own head above water... and yet, they’d still dive in to save you if they saw you drowning.
Real friendship isn't about who you see the most; it’s about who shows up when everyone else has an excuse....
#Copied
We talk about the friends on the roof. Almost no one talks about the man on the mat.
The story in Mark 2 is usually taught as a lesson on friendship and resilience for a miracle. We praise the four guys who carried their paralyzed friend. But we rarely pause to feel what it was like to be the man on the mat.
Think about that guy for a second.
Scripture never says he asked to be carried. It never says he suggested the plan. He doesn’t speak at all. He’s just… there. Still. Silent. Dead weight in the arms of people who love him.
Picture that walk through the streets. The shame of being lifted because you can’t lift yourself. You hear your friends strain supporting you. At that moment, you don't feel like a person but a problem someone else has to solve. You are the heavy thing that is slowing everyone else down.
Then they reach the house, and it’s overcrowded. People pressed into every corner. No space, not even at the door. You’re close enough to hear Jesus’ voice, close enough to feel hope brushing against you, but still too broken to reach Him.
And then everything gets wild. They start tearing the roof apart. It was a mess. Dust, dried mud, and debris raining down on the "important" people below. They are shouting and Jesus’ teaching interrupted. It’s complete chaos.
And in the middle of that chaos comes the humiliation of being lowered. Imagine hanging there, helpless, while a room full of strangers stares up at you. You can’t hide or adjust your clothes. You can’t even stand to greet Jesus. You arrive flat on your back, exposed, vulnerable, looking up at Him from the lowest place in the room.
Everyone expects Jesus to say the obvious line: “Get up and walk.”
But Jesus creates more tension. He ignores the legs and speaks to the heart. He looks at the paralyzed man and says, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
Why?
Because Jesus knew what was worse than the paralysis. He knew the man felt like a burden, like someone who slowed everyone else down; someone who didn’t deserve to take up space.
By calling him "Son," Jesus gave him a family before He gave him a cure. Merciful Jesus gave him dignity before He gave him a destination. He was saying: "You belong here even if you never stand up. You’re Mine even if you’re broken."
Of course, the religious leaders hated it. They wanted a miracle they could critique. Jesus offered a relationship they couldn’t control.
It was only after the man’s soul was settled that Jesus gave the command: "Pick up your mat and go home."
Think about that. He told the man to carry the very thing that used to carry him. That mat went from being a prison to a trophy.
If you feel like a burden today, if you feel like you are just "weight" that others have to carry, look at this story.
Jesus isn't annoyed by your mess, neither is He frustrated by your desperate interruption. He’s waiting to call you "Son" while you’re still stuck on the floor.
You aren't a problem to be solved. You’re a person to be noticed.
The real question isn’t whether Jesus can lift you. Are you willing to let Jesus call you “child” even while you’re still lying on the mat?
#Christianity #BiblicalTruth #FaithOverShame #Healing #Jesus
Ellis Enobun
I grew up hearing this story told in simple contrasts. The raven was the “bad” bird. The dove was the “good” one.
The raven left & never came back.
The dove returned, gentle & faithful,
carrying hope in its beak.
That framing stayed with me for years.
But reading the passage more slowly now, the detail feels less like a moral lesson & more like a careful observation.
The text seems less interested
in assigning virtue & more interested
in showing how renewal actually unfolds.
This detail appeared in Genesis 8:6–12,
& it is easy to pass over & overlook
especially with the familiar story
we were taught as kids.
After forty days, Noah opened
the window of the ark & sent out a raven.
The text says the raven
“went to & fro until the waters
were dried up from the earth.”
Only after this did Noah send out a dove.
The dove returned because
it found no place to rest.
Later, it returned again with
a freshly plucked olive leaf.
When it was sent out a third time,
it did not return.
This order matters, I believe.
Noah did not choose the birds at random & the passage does not invite us
to read this as a contrast between
good & bad creatures.
In the ancient world, even now,
ravens are known as hardy scavengers.
They could survive on remains & floating debris.
They did not require clean ground or growing plants.
If any bird could endure a world
that was still unsettled & marked
by judgment, it was a raven.
So sending the raven first was a practical act.
It tested whether life could
persist outside the ark at all.
Not whether the earth had been restored,
but whether it was no longer entirely hostile.
The raven did not need the world to be healed.
It only needed enough to survive.
This helps explain why the raven never returned.
The text does not say the raven failed or disobeyed.
It simply says it “went to & fro.”
The ark was no longer its only place of refuge.
The raven could land, feed, & move again,
even while the earth was still
unstable & incomplete.
Survival was possible, even if restoration was not.
The dove tells a different story.
Doves are not scavengers.
They require stable ground,
vegetation, & safe places to rest.
When Noah sent the dove the first time,
it returned empty, not because
nothing had changed,
but because not enough had changed.
The earth was exposed, but it was not yet hospitable.
When the dove returned with an olive leaf,
the signal it bore shifted.
Vegetation had begun to grow again.
The world was no longer only emerging
from judgment, it was beginning to recover.
And when the dove did not return the third time,
Noah understood that the earth
had become a place where
gentle life could finally dwell.
Seen this way, the raven & the dove
are not opposing symbols.
They serve different purposes in the story.
The raven showed that judgment
was easing enough for endurance.
The dove showed that judgment
was giving way to renewal.
One marked survival.
The other marked restoration.
There is something quietly instructive here.
Survival & restoration are not the same thing.
A world can sustain life & still
not be ready for new beginnings.
Scripture slows us down by placing
these two birds side by side,
teaching us to recognize the difference.
More importantly, the dove’s return,
this time carrying an olive leaf,
naturally draws the me forward
in the larger story of Scripture.
At the baptism of Jesus,
the Holy Spirit is described
as descending “like a dove” (Matthew 3:16).
In both scenes, the dove appears not in chaos, but at the threshold of something new.
In Noah’s day, it signaled that the earth
was beginning to live again.
At Jesus’ baptism, it marked
the beginning of God’s work
of renewal through Him.
After that moment in Genesis,
the dove was sent out once more
& did not return.
The work of restoration had begun,
but its completion would take time.
Some people believe God's law is no longer important. God disagrees.
We judge Thomas for his doubts. Almost no one remembers he was the first one willing to die.
We’ve branded him with a nickname "Doubting Thomas", reducing his entire life to a single bad weekend. We treat him like the weak link in the chain, a skeptic who didn’t love Jesus enough to just believe.
You need to read John 11 again.
The context here is terrifying. Lazarus is dead, and Jesus announces He is heading back to Judea to wake him up. The disciples aren't just hesitant; they are shaking in their sandals. They remind Jesus that the religious leaders in Judea barely missed stoning Him to death a few days prior.
Going back wasn't a mission trip. It was a suicide mission.
Naturally, the room hesitates. They value their lives. But while everyone else is looking for the exit, Thomas stands up. He looks around at his terrified friends and drops the bravest line in the Gospels:
"Let us also go, that we may die with Him."
That is not the voice of a coward. That is the only man in the room with the guts to walk into the fire because he couldn't bear the thought of Jesus walking into it alone. He was ready to take a rock to the skull just to stay close to his Rabbi.
So, when he struggled with the resurrection later? It wasn't because he didn't care. It was because he cared "too much."
His heart wasn't just skeptical; it was crushed. He had resigned himself to die for Jesus, but instead, he had to watch Jesus die without him. His "doubt" was trauma, not intellectual pride. He was afraid to get his hopes up again.
Notice that Jesus didn’t scold him. He didn’t lecture him. He just showed him the scars. See Thomas holding those hands, shedding tears of love.
We are so quick to define people by their lowest moments. We judge an entire biography by one hard chapter. Thomas had a moment of doubt, sure, but he backed it up with a lifetime of loyalty. Tradition tells us he traveled further than any other apostle, taking the Gospel all the way to India, where he was eventually speared to death.
He died exactly the way he lived: Committed to the end.
Are you judging someone right now because their faith looks messy? Are you writing them off because they’re asking the angry, hard questions?
Be careful. They might not be enemies of the faith. They might just be heartbroken believers who need to see the scars before they can risk trusting again.
Ref: John 11:16 and John 20:24-31
#Christianity #BiblicalTruth #FaithOverFeelings #DoubtingThomas #Faith #Loyalty
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