Lessons from the Shore

We were blessed  to get to the beach four times this past year. Ronald better not ask me when I want to go again. I’ll have my bags packed in twenty minutes flat! I did it before, and I can do it again!

As you know if you’ve read any of my blogs, I am the queen of the object lesson. Each time we were at the beach, I found things that spoke to my heart and made me consider life lessons from nature.

What I will tell you today may be construed to be a political statement. So be it.

One of the things I love at the beach is bird watching. I giggle at the cute little rascals whose feet patter quickly along the shore as they find food in between water surges. I love the way pelicans fly low over the water. I haven’t studied to know, but I think they have a routine of searching twice a day for food. I am amazed that they seem to work together. Why else would they fly in formation?

Then there are the sea gulls who make me as upset as I get with hummingbirds. I gave up on feeding hummingbirds long ago because of their unwillingness to allow another hummer to get food.

Sea gulls have their own style of selfishness. I watch a beautiful gull fly around until it dives and comes up with a little fish in its mouth. Within seconds, other gulls are chasing the first one to steal what he had worked hard to get! I usually have to get my mind on other things to keep from getting my panties in a knot.

Just as I compared myself to a crow, a clam, and a wolf in my last blog, I’ll add one more comparison. I am a sloth.

As a sloth, I am not jealous of those who have the energy to pursue their dreams. I poke along at my own activities, writing for fun, not worrying about those who are succeeding. I will not grab onto things that are not mine that I have not earned.

Grammie Rant – Teach your children the perils of socialism and communism.

Blessings

KB

Paul talks in one of his epistles about the example he had always set by working a job in addition to his ministry.

“It wasn’t that we didn’t have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to show you firsthand how you should work for your living. Even while we were still there with you, we gave you this rule: ‘He who does not work shall not eat.’ Yet we hear that some of you are living in laziness, refusing to work, and wasting your time in gossiping. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we appeal to such people – we command them – to quiet down, get to work, and earn their own living. And to the rest of you I say, never be tired of doing right.    Living Bible 2 Thessalonians 3:9-12