Rabbit on the Lawn

Yesterday morning, I awoke with my mind full of all the things I had to get done. I looked out the kitchen window and saw a rabbit nibbling grass in the back yard. I had not seen him since last fall. He looked up at me, or at least that is what he seemed to be doing. I looked back at him and was not in any particular hurry to accomplish anything at the moment. I stood for a few minutes in contemplation of the rabbit and of nature in general. I don't know what the rabbit was thinking. I was glad to have a few minutes with him.

Whence Natural Law?

I have wondered for a while about natural law. Wikipedia describes it as "the principle that some things are as they are because that is how they are." Well, that may be, but who gets to decide what the natural law is? Does one find it written on the side of a tree somewhere? The theologian Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century stated that the rational nature of human beings defines natural law. I don't remember everyone getting together to agree on what natural law consists of. In reality governments and religions have been the ones to proclaim natural law. The whole discussion seems rather academic until we get to particulars such as contraception being against the natural law since everyone knows that sex is for procreation and without the option of procreation, sex is "disordered." That has been a source of controversy for some time. The whole matter remains a puzzlement to me. Anybody have any ideas?