Fall is in the air and it is 68° this morning. The squirrels are busy storing up pecans for the winter. They run from tree to tree gathering them. Stopping only long enough to drink from the full water bucket we leave out for all the village wildlife and birds during the hot summer months. The birds usually entertain us. They normally serenade us with their songs, but today they are quiet. Have they started their long journey to their winter vacation getaways? I ask myself if I can be more like them. Can I learn to trust my Father to care for me as he does the birds?
I wonder whose influence is stronger in our lives..... Our parents or God? Our parents tended to our every need for the first year of our lives. They teach us to talk, to walk, to hold a spoon and drink from a sippy cup. We are encouraged to do things for ourselves and taught to play on our own. We are encouraged and told that we can do it for ourselves. So we grow up, taking them at their word. We are proud to be told that we are good girls and boys each time we show our independence. We continue to reach out to the people that love and care for us. Then one day, we ask for help and we are told that we are big enough, old enough and capable enough to do it ourselves. We realize that depending on others doesn't earn us that much sought after "good girl or good boy". We begin struggling to do it ourselves. How difficult it becomes to ask for anything.
We say our prayers at night and ask God to protect us and provide for us. But we don't believe he will do it for us. We believe to gain his love, we must do it on our own.
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