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One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry
a huge feather cross my back terrace. Several times it was confronted by
obstacles in its path and 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 and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its
way. I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God's 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 and 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 and 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 small hole Of course it couldn't.
so the ant, after all this trouble and exercising great ingenuity,overcoming
problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather and went home.
The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey
and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden. Isn't life like
that!
We worry about money or the lack of it, we worry about work, about where we
live, about all sorts of things. These are
all burdens - the things we pick up along life's path and lug them around
the obstacles and over the crevasses that life will bring, only to find that
at the destination they are useless and we can't take them with us...
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