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2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
On Feb 8, 2011 , the Hayden Planetarium in New York City ran an advertisement in that city’s newspapers inviting those who would like to make the first journey to another planet to submit an application.
The response was overwhelming. Over 18,000 people, to be exact.
The applications were given to a panel of psychologists who concluded that the reason most of the applicants wanted to take the trip was because they wanted to start a new life.
They hadn’t done so well the first time around here on earth so they were discouraged, and just wanted to start all over again with a blank new page.
They had failed to learn, or had succeeded in forgetting, a deep philosophical and theological truth; when discouragement is winning out, it isn’t that a new page is needed so much as some rewriting on the page you’ve got.
There he was…a man sitting by a rippling stream enjoying his lunch. The mountains in the distance were topped by fingers of gathering clouds that seemed to caress their lofty tops. It was peaceful and he was savoring every moment.
Then came a bee; a very aggressive, buzzing bee with a stinger in full view.
So the man swatted and swatted and swatted again, until he finally succeeded in smacking it to the ground.
He felt bad now that the deed was done, but he certainly hadn’t wanted to be stung. And then he watched in amazement as the bee struggled up from the sand to renew his attack. This time he stamped on it, grinding it into the sand even harder and sat back down to resume eating his lunch.
But then out of the corner of his eye he noticed movement in the sand. That persistent bee was again dragging himself back into the land of the living. Though the right wing seemed intact, the left one looked like a crumpled piece of paper.
The bee stretched his injured wing and experimented moving it slowly up and down, then ran its legs along the damaged surface, as if trying to straighten it out.
Being a pilot and knowing something about wings, the man concluded the bee would never fly again with such a hopelessly crippled wing. But as the right wing began to move up and down, the left crippled wing tried to follow suit.
At first the bee rose only three inches off above the ground before crashing back to earth. Again and again it tried. Each time, flying a little longer and a little higher until at last it took off into the air and was gone.
Sometimes in your life and mine, it’s not a broken wing but broken dreams.
And that’s when we need to flex our spiritual, emotional and physical stamina, weary though we may be. Hobble if we can’t run; crawl rather than cave in, but always determined to give our all, however much of our all is left, and count our blessings.
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