Storybook Room #447 - Redheaded Woodpecker

0:00Hi there, I'm Ralph the wed-headed woodpecker. He he he, listen to me drum on my tree. BELL RINGS When I hear Ralph, I hear you, buddy. Hey, how about telling me how you do it today, okay? Okay, Uncle Bob. He he he he. BELL RINGS How you fix for knocking on wood? Ralph, all my friends ask me what keeps that crazy woodpecker from knocking his brains out when he drums on the tree like that? Good question. It's a brilliant, very scientific design. Inside and outside of my head, Uncle Bob. Yeah, I figured you'd say that. Listen, man, if my head were not carefully engineered by the great creator, I wouldn't even be here talking to you now. I'd be a dead woodpecker. Yeah, I'm a feathered friend. Hey, how many times a second does your chisel-like bill hit the wood? Generally, about 15 times a second, Uncle Bob. But boys and girls can't count that fast, so they'll have to just take my wood for it. Oh, no, they can count them, Ralph. You see, I've tape-recorded one second's worth of your drumming on the old dead tree,

1:00and I can slow that one second's worth way down, so the fellas and gals can count the drums. Amazing. Okay, you ready for it then? Ready. BELL RINGS Okay, okay, that's one second's worth. Now, I'll slow it way down and count the beats. Here you go, one second's worth. BELL RINGS I'll have to give you people credit. You're smarter than I thought. I've never heard myself drill so slowly. I've only heard it like this. BELL RINGS 15 a second, Ralph. Why don't you explain the way the great creator has engineered your sharp beak in your head, okay? There are four basic differences between a woodpecker's head and the head of any other kind of bird, and because of these four differences, we're able to drill and not knock our brains out. Okay, that's what we're after today, Ralph. Give us number one. My brain, and let's not hear any jokes about bird brains, Uncle Bob. Don't worry about it. My brain is surrounded by a special liquid. Oh, you've got water on your brain.

2:01Something on your mind. A special liquid fills the narrow space between my brain and my bony skull. Okay, so what's the benefit? How come? It's a shock absorber, Uncle Bob. Hey, sure, Ralph. The liquid takes the beating, not my brain. The liquid takes the pounding of my drilling, but it doesn't pass it onto my brain and cause damage. It's a shock absorber. Wow, needle, liquid shock absorbers. Other birds who don't drill into trees have a special liquid in their brains, too. But this fluid would pass the vibrations onto their brains if they started to drum on a tree. No, why would that be, Ralph? Because they have more of it than the woodpecker, Uncle Bob. They have a bigger space between their brain and skull. And the bigger the space, the bigger the vibration and the brain damage. Yeah, but not for me, Ralph the red-headed woodpecker. Mine is small and it contains a smaller amount of liquid and it's specially engineered for drilling. Okay, that's reason number one, Ralph. How about the second one? Okay, the master designer put a different type of bone in the back of my head, Uncle Bob.

3:06What do you mean, different type of bone? Scientists in California describe it as a, well, sort of like a spongy type of bone. Mmm, sort of soft then. Yeah, man. It's not hard and brittle like other birds' heads. Okay, so how does this help you? As I said, this spongy part of my skull is in the back of my head. Yeah, I know you're told. And it's able to give a little and bend a little when I drill. Oh, why should a bender give a little? Well, as I bang my bill against a twee, 15 times a second, my brain gets jobbed back and forth naturally. Oh, I see. And this soft bone in the back of your skull gives or bends a little like a sponge and lets the brain gently vibrate against a soft part of your skull. Right, and my brain does not get hurt because the bone is soft and spongy. So this bone is really like a piece of rubber then? Like a rubber ball. It gives a little, but other birds who don't drill into tweez have head bones as hard as a baseball. Interesting. That shows you were specially designed, Ralph, designed to drill into a tree.

4:10Okay, that's reason number two. How about number three? But scientists in California and England have discovered that my jaw has very powerful muscles. Okay, so they have. So how do these powerful muscles keep your brains from being jarred loose? The muscles act like that fluid in my brain, you know? For sure, you're like shock absorber. Yeah, the muscle tissue takes the shock and the pounding and spreads it out. It isn't concentrating. It's spread out. Okay, and because it's spread out, it's really less pressure. Wait on, man. And my brain is again protected from damage. Thanks to my intelligent querieta. Ralph, when you drill like that, your head vibrates back and forth. Isn't that kind of hard on your neck? That's because the great engineer built up the area around my neck. Around your neck? Come again? Yeah, the querieta designed and built special tendons and little bones, you know. He connected them to muscles around my neck near my mouth. Oh, I see. Well, tell me how this helps you. Oh, these muscles and tendons keep my head from popping off my neck or the bob.

5:12And your neck does move back and forth pretty rapidly when you drill. It does. And my mighty maker thought of that when he built special muscles and tendons to take the shock and the vibration off my neck bones. And you don't get a stiff neck or pop it out of joint. Wait on, or the bob. So really, you have a specially designed, well, I should say, helmet around your brain, right? Yeah, and now some scientists and anyone say they'd like to design one for your humans. You mean after the design of yours? Yeah, helmet like mine. They say it'd be better than anything scientists have come up with yet. Boy Ralph, looks like your creator has more on the ball than the best scientists. It appears that way if his way is better. And it is, I can tell. Right. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ, the creator of the Woodpecker. Is there anything else I can do for you today, Master Abraham? Yes, Eliasar, there is.

6:13Well, just tell me, and I'll do it. I want you to travel to Nehore over in the land of Mesopotamia and bring back a bride for my son Isaac to Nehore, who is that interesting, Master Abraham? It is interesting, and I'll tell you why, Eliasar. My relatives live in the land of Nehore. I realize that, sir. I want you to go there, Eliasar, and choose a bride out of my own people. Your own relatives? Yes, that's right. Not from the Canaanites. Yes, sir. She must, must be from my people. My relatives, Eliasar. Master Abraham, suppose the woman that I choose will not come back here with me. Should I take Isaac back to her homeland? No, no way. Well, but you don't do that, because Jehovah God spoke to me, and he said, Abraham, I will give this land to your descendants. I see. Not the land of Mesopotamia, but to the promised land.

7:14Yes. And the beautiful part of all of this, Eliasar, the beautiful part. God told me that he would send his angel up ahead of you to prepare the way. God has promised to send his aid. And his aid? Yes. Suddenly. Okay. Okay. Come here, Eliasar. I want you to swear. Yes, my master. Put your hand under my fly. Assign that you swear to do this. Yes, sir. I swear. I swear that I will go to the city of Nehau, to your own people, to your relatives, and choose out a wife for Isaac. And I know, just like you said. God will send his angel ahead of me. Did you notice that Abraham made Eliasar swear that he would choose a girl who was a relative? Abraham knew that this girl would be a believer in Christ.

8:15That was important. You see, Abraham wanted his son to marry a believer, and only a believer. Eliasar has arrived in Nehau. It's evening. And the young women are coming to draw water from the well. Well, look. Here I am at the well. Oh, God. Johova, God of my master, Abraham. Please give me success this evening. Here I am standing by the well. And the young ladies are coming out here to draw water now. Oh, God. God, I want to know your choice of a girl for Isaac. That mind, but your choice. So, God, I'm going to make it hard for her. If she's the right one, God, heaven, to give me a drink of water when I ask her. And then cause her to say that she will give my ten camels a drink too.

9:16Thank you, Lord. Thank you. No, that was quite a prayer. Because one thirsty camel has been known to drink twenty-seven gallons of water at one time. And the Bible says Eliasar had ten camels. Well, let's see what happened. There's a beautiful one, Lord. Excuse me, madam. Please let me drink a little water from your jaw. Yes, certainly. Drink my Lord. Thank you. It's refreshing. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll draw a water for your camels too until they've finished drinking. God had sent his angel ahead of Eliasar and prepared Rebecca's mind for this evening. It was an answer to his prayer. Eliasar is in Rebecca's house now. Won't you sit down and have some food, sir?

10:18No, maybe not yet. Not until I have told you the purpose of my visit. All right, speak on me. All right. I am Abraham servant. And the Lord has greatly blessed my master so that he has become rich. Abraham sent me to his own people here in Nehor and said, get a bride for my son Isaac, and make sure that she's from my people and my relatives. And so this evening, gentlemen, as I came to the well, I prayed to the Lord Jehovah and I said, God, the girl that gives me a drink of water, the right one, cause her to say, I will give water to your camels also. And Bethuel, your daughter Rebecca said those very words tonight. May I take your daughter, Rebecca, to be Isaac's bride. Well, that's your morning. Think about Bethuel. Awesome. The matter comes from the Lord.

11:19Yes, that's it. It's the Lord's working, it's his will. We cannot answer you good or bad. Take Rebecca, take her, and she can be Isaac's wife. Thank you. Two points to remember in today's true story from Genesis 24. God's will is always a believer for a believer, Isaac for Rebecca, and Rebecca for Isaac. And number two, God goes up ahead of you and prepares the way for you. Now that you know that, why don't you tell him thank you, and that you really appreciate it, and you want him to show you his will for your life, so you don't make a mistake, okay? Whatever he wants for me. His will, his will,

12:20I must know, I must know. Wherever he wants to send me. Who is with, his will, I must know, I must know. If he but speaks, I'll obey and his voice. Who I will pray is I, and his will is my choice. Whatever he wants for me. His will, his will, I must know. Well, my good friend, we're out of time for storybook room today. Just enough time left to remind you about God's will for your life.

13:22It's great to know it, them to do it, and then to love it, okay? You have a great day. Uncle Bob till next time saying Cheerio. Cheerio. Cheerio. Cheerio. Cheerio. Cheerio.

14:25Cheerio. Cheerio. Cheerio.