The Spider’s Lesson
July 5, 2010
I am blessed to live with someone who loves to garden and has a talent for making beautiful places. My part is to do a little dead-heading, and offer ideas, and appreciate what he has done. What a deal!
Today I was eating my morning cereal while rocking gently on the lawn swing, listening to the water falling into the pond, gazing out from under wisteria vines across pink geraniums, nasturtiums, bright coleus, and pansies, all the way to the rose garden and the hydrangea, blooming periwinkle blue again this year. The roses have finished their first explosion of blossoms and are regathering for another colorful assault, and I noticed with pleasure that “Brandy” has a whole regiment of buds swelling. The sun glinted on something long and silvery stretched all the way across the path between the rose bush and the lemon tree, a good four feet. A spider’s suspension bridge. Such an enterprising spider! How did she construct this thing? I imagined her poised trembling at the very tip of a lemon leaf, waiting for just the right breeze, and then launching herself out over the void below, silk spraying behind like a jet stream as she floated gently to a perfect landing.
Ah! I see the message. Trust in God.
July 6th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Charlotte does provide us with a lovely metaphor for faith.
July 6th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Trust God! This is what we try to do all our lives. Why is it so hard? What has God done that we don’t trust. When we look at all He has done, we should jump at the chance to leap high buildings, travel faster than a speeding bullet…
The human condition is that we think we are at the center of things, always trying to work an angle, get a leg up on others, manipulating situations and people to get our fair share of all the goodies. The spider should be our role model on this one.
It is important to see that “she” waited for just the right moment to let the wind fly her to the perfect place. The perfect time for us is right now. Now jump!!!!