…….OR AT LEAST THE ONE I WAS TAUGHT ABOUT
Once upon a time I was a little boy in Cleveland, Ohio, running on a summer’s day, singing or yelling or I don’t know what when a bee flew into my mouth. Naturally my lips and teeth closed around the arrival of what they innocently perceived as more nutrition. My little bee-teacher found its self in a suddenly confined, threatening, moving darkness. Desiring to live and continue, the bee used its self-protection and swung the sword of protection, sticking the point of its life into the moving encroachment. Without a thought I tried to spit out the intruder, but the bee said “NO!”, attached with its little hooks into my tongue as well as that shockingly painful sting. Fortunately my body understood to stick my tongue out and pull it back scraping the bee off with my teeth. Reaching into my mouth I became assured the bee (but not the pain) was gone.
Why me? the bee and I were both asking. No idea where the bee went, except into adapting to escaping that beastly, dark, angry place. Seventy years later, adapting my self to the environment I call Life, this little story has rolled out to share Life’s agreement to being both pain and end of pain, suffering and pleasure. The God I learned was riding the clouds, imperiously watching so “HE” could snatch up offenders of “HIS” choices, has become a survivor, eyes and ears wide, and mouth shut, gratefully committed to being loving.
Republished with permission.
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This post was previously published on thefatherconnection.wordpress.com.
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