Three days down, only 27 more days to go. This morning Audrey and I were reading a devotional with thoughts from C.S. Lewis. He was talking about war, and how we as humans continue to go about our "normal" routine while a war is going on. That if we would wait until there was peace to search and discover new things, that the search would never start. Yet at the same time he said it was different with animals. Bees make sure their hive is secure and protected before they start to search for flowers and nectar, and make honey. While we as humans sit around and talk about mathematical equations while our city is getting bombed, or combing our hair while marching to battle. So I'm not totally sure what his point was. Either 1. We are supposed to continue to do things during "war" times in our lives, which seems like a lot. or 2. We are supposed to take care of the "war" first and then do the other things in our lives.
Spiritually it seems that if you are in a battle, it would be wise to put the "battle" at the front of your to-do list. Because if you went on with life while the battle was still raging on, 1. You wouldn't be fully in the "battle" and 2. All the other things in your life would be directly affected by the "battle" so the other things in life wouldn't be as good as they could be without the "battle".
It's like trying to constantly live with a big hump on your back. You can have surgery to get it removed, or you can try and go about your daily tasks with it still attached. At first it might seem okay, you can adjust your lifestyle for the big humps sake. But after a while, it would get very burdensome and tedious. You couldn't sit down right, you would have to sleep on your stomach or side, everytime you went through a door you would have to duck. Cutting it off would be painful, but in the end, totally worth it.
just a few thoughts....
1 comment:
It's like bees trying to make honey in a hive with a worrying beekeeper. The beekeeper is constantly checking the hive to see if the bees are alive, if they're making honey, if the honey is being made right. The beekeeper has trouble trusting what he cannot see.
So with the constant disturbance to their home the bees spend their time securing their hive and they never have time to actually do what they were created to do - make honey.
If only the bees were only left alone for awhile they would feel secure and would begin making honey.
In order to do what they were created to do they must first be safe and secure and then the true sweetness can flow out of their hive at the proper time.
The beekeeper must either be patient or the bees must find a new hive otherwise both will become disallusioned.
- the analogy maker
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