Blessing Hearts Ministries

"Zwazo poze sou tout branch."

("Birds land on all branches.")

Sometimes it can feel like everyone around us is getting what we want.

Or what we need.

Or what we feel like we deserve.

And that can be a tough pill to swallow.

But something I have learned over the years, and honestly am still learning, is that when I am focused on comparison I am always more discontent.

Looking around at everyone else keeps me from seeing the goodness in my own life.

And dwelling on those desires of mine and how they aren't yet fulfilled actually reveals my deeper desire for control.

When I lean into God's love, remember His past faithfulness, and trust in His timing, I experience so much more peace.

What this proverb is saying is that "your turn will come".

It may not be when you want.

It may not be in the way you want.

But "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26)

God will provide.

He know what is best...and when is best...for you.

Trust Him.

"Ou pa kapab kouche sou nat pou ap pale nat mal."

("You can't sleep on the mat and speak badly about the mat.")

While living on Hispaniola we learned that though a country that close to the equator doesn't have four weather-based seasons like we were used to, it definitely had seasons.

Even the ocean tide had its own seasons.

We learned when to stay out of the water because of it being "jellyfish time".

We also learned when was the best time to go shell-hunting, and eventually, when the hermit crabs were easiest to find and collect.

For collect them we did.

For fun, for school projects, for whatever.

Usually they were tiny, but I will never forget the time we found this one.

A giant among hermit crabs, letting his younger cousin hitch a ride on his shell.

We thought it was so cute, and funny.

And unexpected.

How often do animals "help" each other out in such a way?

Maybe niether of them was even conscious of what the other was doing, but my imagination likes to assume a background story between these two.

I wonder if they were friends before, or if this was their first meeting?

I wonder if the little crab was just tired, or if he was injured somehow, or if they were just having fun?

I wonder if the little crab was grateful afterwards?

This example from nature makes me think...
..in the U.S. we are entering into a season of thanksgiving...
..how many of us have people in our lives who have helped us in some way, that maybe we have forgotten to appreciate?

How often do we complain or gripe or grow despondent about our circumstances when our chins could be lifted just by giving thanks?

To the One Who gives us all good things?

For the ones He places in our lives to lift us up?

What is ONE thing...or maybe ONE person...you can be thankful for or thank today?