Crickets and Scorpions--Courtesy of MountainWings

Never give up; you never know until you try.

Here's another MountainWings issue that spoke to me:

Crickets and Scorpions
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I usually spend time in prayer at five a.m. each morning.

 

I shall relay a lesson that God taught me very dramatically

during one of those early morning sessions.

 

I pray in a closet that is actually the vocal booth of our

former home music studio. It is soundproof.

 

As I entered clad only in shorts, I heard the sound of a cricket

chirping. There in the shadow, I saw the cricket.

It was very close to where I sit on the floor each day.

 

"Sit down and don't bother the cricket,"

I heard a soft voice speak in my spirit.

 

I obeyed.

 

I turned out the light and sat in total darkness and silence.

 

I felt something crawl up on my leg.

 

"Don't bother the cricket," I heard the voice say again,

"I am trying to teach you something."

 

"You need to learn to distinguish the difference between

crickets and scorpions in life. Don't bother the cricket."

 

The cricket crawled. It is an eerie feeling to say the least.

I wasn't afraid of the cricket. I knew it couldn't harm me.

It wouldn't bite, sting, or even so much as scratch me.

 

It was just a highly annoying and extremely icky feeling.

A cricket crawling all over you.

 

I let the cricket crawl for almost a minute until I couldn't

stand it anymore. I brushed the cricket off, turned on the light,

picked it up in my hand, and took it outside and let it go.

 

I understood what God was trying to show me.

Life has scorpions and crickets.

 

Scorpions are the things that can hurt us; things that are truly

destructive and dangerous. Crickets are the things that have

absolutely no power to hurt us, they are just irritating.

They get on our nerves; they try our patience.

 

I saw things differently after emerging from prayer that day.

 

I realized that the vast majority of the things that really

irked me

 

...were crickets.

 

The vast majority of the things that irk you

 

...are crickets.

 

Don't bother the crickets

and don't let the crickets bother you.

 

 

~A MountainWings Original~ 

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Easier said than done, huh folks?

Twas The Day After Christmas--Courtesy of Mountainwings

Never give up; you never know until you try.

I've shared several issues of MountainWings daily thoughts over the years, and here's another one I recently received in my inbox:

Twas The Day After Christmas

Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house,

Every creature was hurtin' even the mouse.

The toys were all broken, their batteries dead;

Santa passed out, with some ice on his head.

 

Wrapping and ribbons just covered the floor,

While upstairs the family continued to snore.

 

And I in my T-shirt, new Reeboks and jeans,

I went into the kitchen and started to clean.

 

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the sink to see what was the matter.

 

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the curtains, and threw up the sash.

 

When what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a little white truck, with an oversized mirror.

 

The driver was smiling, so lively and grand;

The patch on his jacket said "U.S. POSTMAN."

 

With a handful of bills, he grinned like a fox.

Then quickly he stuffed them into our mailbox.

 

Bill after bill, after bill, they still came.

Whistling and shouting he called them by name:

"Now Dillard's, now Broadway's, now Penny's and Sears

Here's Robinson's, Levitz's and Target's and Mervyn's.

To the tip or your limit, every store, every mall,

Now chargeaway-chargeaway-chargeaway all!"

 

He whooped and he whistled as he finished his work.

He filled up the box, and then turned with a jerk.

He sprang to his truck and he drove down the road,

Driving much faster with just half a load.

 

Then I heard him exclaim with great holiday cheer,

"ENJOY WHAT YOU BOUGHT.......

 

YOU'LL BE PAYING ALL YEAR!"

 

~Author Unknown~

 

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