The Ant

         The Ant


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 share 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 our family, 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…


                               Good Day

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