Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
The North American periodic cicada spends seventeen years under the ground. It subsists on sap, using its long snout to eat, and creates tunnels for itself along which it moves when it has to. It spends its life alone and in the dark. In its larval state, it is encased in a dry shell skin which it discards only when it reaches maturity. Once it emerges above ground, it discovers a huge number of other mature cicadas, who have all surfaced at the same time, in June, seventeen years after they were born. The males begin to sing, seeking out a mate, beating two skin membranes on their abdomens to ring out their presence. They are wonderfully coloured creatures, born into a new orange-flecked body, with wings.
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