The Burdens of Life One morning,I watched fascinated as a tiny ant carried a huge feather across my back terrace. Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its path & after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour. At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide. After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked across it & picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way. I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of Jehovas smallest creatures. It served to reinforce the miracle of creation. Here was a minute insect, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason, explore, discover & overcome. But this ant, like the two-legged co-residents of this planet, also shares human failings. After some time the ant finally reached its destination – a flower bed at the end of the terrace & a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And it was here,that the ant finally met its match!! How could that large feather possibly fit down that small hole? Of course it couldn’t. So the ant, after all this trouble & exercising great ingenuity, overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather & went home. The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey & in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden. Isn’t life like that for some of us as well! We worry about our family, we worry about money or the lack of it, we worry about work, about where we live,about people & about all sorts of things. These are all burdens – the things we pick up along life’s path & lug them around the obstacles & over the crevices that life will bring, only to find that at the destination they are useless & we can’t take them with us.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:57:01 +0000
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