It feels like forever since my last
blog post. To be exact, it’s been 26 days;
that’s 19 days longer than I like.
The busy-ness of life was beginning
to wear me down and I knew that needed to change. The way I let go of all that
life has been piling up on me is to get outdoors and enjoy the beauty of
creation. This usually happens early in the morning when there’s less people
and noise, but that hasn’t been working out, so I went to a nearby park to
clear my head.
Arriving at the park in the late
afternoon gave me an appreciation for how much other people use the park. The bench I like to sit in was being used, so I hunkered down at the base of a tree and allowed myself to melt away. After saying a few prayers, I started to focus on the woods around me. A butterfly caught my attention. Initially it was casually fluttering around,
working its way from plant to plant, then the wind picked up and started
blowing the butterfly back the way it came from. Occasionally the wind would
die down and the butterfly continued on its original path. However, as sure as
the sun rose and set that day, the wind picked back up, pushing the butterfly
back to where it started. I found myself rooting for the butterfly, “keep going…you
can make it!” This went on until eventually
the evening wind faded away and the butterfly continued on to its original destination.
I’m glad I took the time to get
outdoors and witness the butterfly in the same struggle I had recently found
myself in. Life was pushing it around,
yet it prevailed and moved forward.
Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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