The Moth

[Gaelina]

My son has kept me up most of the last two night and I have gotten very little sleep. So when I woke up this morning I wasn't in the best frame of mind. I was tired and weary. Even after my morning devotion I was still not at my best. So as I walked out the door at about 5:30AM I was a bit grumpy but as I pushed open the screen door I noticed something clinging to it. Normally I wouldn't have noticed anything but the porch light was on and I could actually see the screen door. There in the corner was a huge moth. He was gorgeous. The grey, blacks, white, and browns made a splendid pattern and I marveled at his beauty. As I got into my car I was thinking about how such a small creature so often over looked was crafted so beautifully. So precise and deliberate was his patterns and colors. God made that little guy, thought him through completely and perfected him.

A bug.

I smiled. If God was so intricate with a moth how much more so with me.

Later that day as I was walking between my buildings and gathering supplies for work I saw a lone seagal fly across the sky and I was reminded about the sparrow and how even they are known to God and he provides for them. That seagal was as known to God as that moth. Their purpose and every moment watched and directed and cared for by God.

How much more so me.

Later when I came home I saw the moth again still in the same place and I worried that maybe it had died. This really saddened me. So I touched it and off it flew. Oh what joy in such a simple creature alive! Gods purpose for the creature was not yet done. It had purpose in my life today. My slump and negativity was lifted and removed all because of a moth on my screen door.  A simple natural sign to me to be joyful for I am cared for and my life is worth much and God is in control.

Even a moth will God use to show us what He wants us to see. However, I do not think I would have had the eyes to see if I had not been pondering over my morning devotion, my small personal time with God. Such time with the Lord is essential to how your day will feel to you. I know in the few short months that I have made the point of getting up the much earlier just to start my day off with God first has drastically changed my out look on life. I notice these little signs now. I can look up into the rising morning sun and see the beauty that God has created every morning to bless us with. How glorious is a sunrise and how often we miss it in our busy hectic lives. There is so much glorious beauty around us that God has created for us to enjoy and we miss it like I could have missed that moth because we are so caught up in ourselves.

I am so glad that I took that moment to investigate what I saw out of the corner of my eye for if I had not I highly doubt that I would have been singing at work all day. Laughing and carrying on like I dont have a worry in the world, for I truly dont. God is with me and my cares are upon Him. And all because of a moth.

Thank you, Lord!