Natural or Miraculous?

There's just no way that manna was some sort of natural phenomenon.  It was indisputably miraculous.  The six-day provision accompanied by the fact that it spoiled if kept overnight on every night except the night before Sabbath eliminated any chance of a natural explanation.

 

I know we call a lot of things miraculous today.  However, the onlooking naysayer rarely finds our claims of 'miracle' as truly miraculous but rather explained by some natural phenomenon.  For example, there are those that claim it is a miracle that the sun rises each and every day while the naysayer points our the orbit of earth around the sun in combination with its rotation accounts for the realities of day and night.  Both sides of this argument have their valid points.  However, with current understanding of natural events like day and night, it would indeed be supernatural if the sun went backwards in the sky for only a brief moment (think it through with all the science you can muster as it would be a supernatural event with no uncertain chaotic results).  And yet, the Bible records such an event on a couple of occasions.

 

As I consider what I am saying here, I realize that I don't have a clue as to what I am saying.  Even the sun-standing-still or the sun-going-backwards scenarios, as supernatural as they sound, could at least find some natural explanation if, for whatever reason, the earth momentarily broke its orbit and slipped only slightly further away from the sun.  Likewise, I wonder what the effect of the moon momentarily losing its orbit grip on the earth would result in?  What's more, these orbits may not require "slippage" but simply elongation (one way or the other).

 

So, naturally speaking, where did that manna come from?  And how in the world did it appear on a 7-day cycle?  I am guessing that more brilliant minds possibly have some answers for these questions.

 

But one question remains: Who is in control of it all?

 

Father, I believe the answer to my question above is, You.