Here is a True Story that happened in San Antonio, United States.

Michael R. is now an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works downtown in a second story office building. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk.

The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.

Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching. Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off!

The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In his disbelief Michael watched as the first fuzzy newborn toddled to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the cement below. Michael couldn’t stand to watch this risky effort.

He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs to the sidewalk where the first obedient duckling was stuporing near its mother from the near fatal fall.

As the second one took the plunge, Michael jumped forward and caught it with his bare hands before it hit the concrete. Safe and sound, he set it by the momma and the other stunned sibling, still recovering from its painful leap.

One by one the babies continued to jump. Each time Michael hid under the awning just to reach out in the nick of time as the duckling made its free fall. The downtown sidewalk came to a standstill. Time after time, Michael was able to catch the remaining 8 and set them by their approving mother.

At this point Michael realized the duck family had only made part of its dangerous journey. They had 2 full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs, and pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the San Antonio River. The onlooking office secretaries and several San Antonio police officers joined in.

They brought an empty copy paper box to collect the babies. They carefully corralled them, with the mother’s approval, and loaded them in the container. Michael held the box low enough for the mom to see her brood. He then slowly navigated through the downtown streets toward the San Antonio River. The mother waddled behind and kept her babies in sight.

As they reached the river, the mother took over and passed him, jumping into the river and quacking loudly. At the water’s edge, he tipped the box and helped shepherd the babies toward the water and to their mother after their adventurous ride.

All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water and paddled up snugly to momma. Michael said the mom swam in circles, looking back toward the beaming bank bookkeeper, and proudly quacking.

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Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly and leave the rest to God.

Be there to help the helpless

Watch this video clip given above. Its named “God’s Chisel”. A very lovely one.

When God chisels the dead weight out of our lives, it can be very painful.

In one of their most requested skits, Tommy and Eddie give a very creative look at a typical believer having to go through the process of discipline.

The clip shows a man praying to God to chisel him so as to make  him  a  better person. God appears before him and what follows is a thought provoking and inspirational conversation between him and God.

I made the mistake of putting off watching this video just because it was almost 9 minutes long.

Would you give up 9 minutes if it changed you and had an eternal impact? This video has ministered me in a tremendous way. I share it with every one  hoping that the holy spirit may minister them too. It has a very anointed message. A great video from the skit guys Tommy and Eddie.

Pets……..They are just awesome! I love my pets and I know all of you feel the same.

Our pets have become a part of our life, we recognise it or not, especially for our kids, as we can infer from the 18 pet pics given just above. Take a look at each of them, how cute and lovely they are!

Today, for many of us, our animal companions are our only or most important link with the world of nature. They teach us lessons about our own spirit and spirituality and the spirit, which permeates the whole of life. Through their very existence, pure-of-heart, full of love, and vulnerable, they teach us important lessons about the delicate balance and enormous power of the earth. Through their very existence and our proximity to them, we come to recognize that the greatest, most enduring gifts life has to offer are not material but, rather, spiritual.

Innate in human beings is a reverence and feeling of awe and upliftment when we are in contact with the natural world: the deep blue oceans and lakes; a cascading waterfall; a clear, starlit sky; a snow-covered mountain peak; a glistening glacier; a verdant meadow in bloom and ablaze with wildflowers. We find healing, serenity, peace and renewal in nature. We somehow sense that there is a Greater Power Who has created and is manifest in all living beings. Through recognition of this Greater Power or Creative Force, we are able to discover that we are far more than our mere 3 physical minds or bodies. We are the Power that motivates them.