I've always loved Nature. My spirit feels like it can take a big stretch and breath deep. I also feel so close to God when I am surrounded by the things he made from his hands and his heart.
We are not ignorant to the fact that animals have personalities and even a lady bug has a right to live its life without interference. A few of these small creatures ended up in a downstairs area of where I live and were definitely trapped doomed to an early death. I think its the fact I have gotten older that I let them be (too lazy to bring them outside). My compassion for these tiny creatures no longer had a voice. All was well as they died one by one. I felt a tinge of sadness but carried on with my day until one morning in my kitchen.
I found a lady bug crawling around on a bright, green, foiled, softened butter package. I knew that it thought it was a leaf. My empathy came to life and I knew I could not let it continue to be lied to by that packaging. I took it to the door and set it free outside. I could not bare the thought of it searching and searching for food on that green foil. It wasn't a real leaf and was not going to give that little lady bug anything but insanity.
How are we like this lady bug? How are we circling and circling around and around in relationships, work, old beliefs, habits that are not real. Its just a shiny wrapper that appears to be the real thing-but isn't. It will never fill us up. If we keep circling we may starve of love, a sound mind, stability, clarity, energy, soul health and vitality. What is one thing in your life that you may think is real but isn't? Do you need support to recognize it and be free of it? Are you stuck somewhere and are looking in the wrong places for answers and sustenance?
This may be a boring fact, but it is true: it's not the shiny new things that fill us, its usually the things that are right in front of us that we keep ignoring.
I personally have only found the love and joy from the Holy Spirit to give me everything I need.
Comments