One
Sunday morning, a wealthy man sat on his balcony enjoying the sunshine and his
coffee when a little ant caught his eye which was going from one side to the
other side of the balcony carrying a big leaf several times more than its size.
The man watched it for more than an hour. He saw that the ant faced many
hindrances during its journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued
towards the 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 the 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 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
– 2 bedroom or 3 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.
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