Well, it's spring here in the south and the grass is starting to grow and folks are beginning to spend a lot of time outside. Earlier this week, my son and I were outside when we noticed our dog, Dojo, chasing a squirrel. Cason yelled for him to "STOP" and about the time he stopped the squirrel made a "beeline" (that's word some of us southerners like to use) up the telephone pole. There the squirrel sat scared out of his mind and Dojo patiently waiting for him at the bottom. Cason and I were so interested in what the squirrel was going to do we sat there waiting to see just what was going to happen next. I thought to myself "Well, he only can come down because he has no where else to go?"About 10 minutes passed and with Dojo waiting for the squirrel to come down; the squirrel made a run for it and about half way down the pole jumped off and ran to a tree, unbeknown to Dojo as he was still sitting at the bottom of the telephone pole. We laughed and laughed as Dojo just sat there with nothing on the telephone pole.
This whole situation made me think of my personal relationship with God. Sometimes WE are like the squirrel feeling like we have been run up a telephone pole with no where to go. We sit at the top of the pole waiting for God to do SOMETHING and then we realize the fact that He has given us the ability to "jump to another tree" and that He has been with us the whole time! The world is like Dojo waiting at the bottom ready to eat us alive if we come down the telephone pole of life and let our guard down.
Praise be to God for always being with us, and giving us wings to fly or the know how to jump from a telephone pole to a tree...
Until next time,
Andrea
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