The man watched it
for more than an hour. He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its
journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued towards destination. At
one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused... for
a little while, analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked
over the leaf, picked the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.
The man was
captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest creatures. The
incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of
Creation. It showed the greatness of the Creator.
In front of his
eyes there was this tiny creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with a
brain to analyze, contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along
with all these capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature
shared some human shortcomings.
The man saw about
an hour later the creature had reached its destination – a tiny hole in the
floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. And it was at this point
that the ant’s shortcoming that it shared with the man was revealed. How could
the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to
carefully bring to the destination? It simply couldn’t! So the tiny creature,
after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising great skills, overcoming
all the difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went
home empty-handed.
The ant had not thought
about the end before it began its challenging journey and in the end the large
leaf was nothing more than a burden to it. The creature had no option, but to
leave it behind to reach its destination. The man learned a great lesson that
day.
Isn’t that the
truth about our lives? We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we
worry about how to earn more money, we worry about where we should live – 5
bedroom or 6 bedroom house, what kind of vehicle to buy – a Mercedes or BMW or
a Porsche, what kind of dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon
all these things when we reach our destination – The Grave.
We don’t realize in
our life’s journey that these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost
care and fear of losing them, only to find that at the end they are useless and
we can’t take them with us.
-- Author Unknown
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