Re: Lessons from a duck

This last week (I think on Monday night) we discovered that a "momma mallard" had decided to nest right up against our house in the front landscape bed. She is sitting on eleven duck eggs! I really don't know what else to do so I've left her alone. She has been setting out there now all this week. I've watched it rain and if I go to the front window and look down she's there. I watched it get cold enough one evening this week for the furnace to come on and one day we set a record with the heat and yet when I looked, sure enough she's still there! I've been thinking about some of the lessons that you and I could learn from a duck. I know that God the Creator put within this momma duck the natural instinct to mother her nest and to keep her baby ducks warm and safe. I know that she will stay there in all weather and in all circumstances because it is her calling. I also know that the poppa mallard residing the edge of the woods in our back lawn is not only there to help her and oversee her but Mallards mate for life! He's not about to leave and head for more comfortable places because his "Mrs. Mallard" is here in our lawn. Now tell me there aren't some valuable lessons our society could learn from this Mr. and Mrs. Mallard who've taken up temporary (I hope...) residence in our landscape bed.
We too need to realize that our Creator made each of us with a purpose in mind. We need to be aware that God has given each of us something specific to do and we must not only care enough to discover our purpose but we must be faithful and commited to fulfilling it regardless of how the weather (circumstances) around us may change. And, if we have been blessed with a mate in life let's determine to be faithful for a lifetime to the one we started out with. I think our whole world would be a better place if all of us would just behave a little more like a duck!
Let others see Jesus in you this week and His handiwork in your life. Who knows, someone may observe you this week and say, "Hey, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...." Well you know! :-D>