Good Things, Small Packages

It’s Top Sites Tuesday again … and I need to be careful.    While I loved last week’s topic (Helping Others), coming up with something meaningful to say on the subject nearly gave me a mental hernia (very painful, in case you’ve never had one).    I also exceeded my weekly ration of post-words by several hundred.  So, there are two basic requirements for this week’s post … it needs to be upbeat and short.    Fortunately, the general theme for Top Sites Tuesday #44 is Two Thoughts on Tuesday again so I can choose my own poison, er, topic.

If you read my Monday Smiles post yesterday (and if you haven’t, why not?), you know that over the weekend, my wife and I went with friends to The Living Desert, a wild animal park in Palm Desert, CA.    One of the best things about the park is the large enclosures that allow the animals there to lead a fairly normal life (except, of course, for people staring at them.   Do you remember the Twilight Zone about the family whose house turns out to be in an alien zoo?).    One of the features of the park is a walk through hummingbird and butterfly enclosure.  The butterfly population was low due to the season but there were a number of hummingbirds willing to pose close enough to photograph with my very basic digital camera.   Now, I know we’re supposed to be able to see God in our fellow man but by the time we reach our teenage years, most of us have acquired enough annoying peccadilloes that I find it difficult.    It’s easier for me to see God’s handiwork in certain of the world’s flora and fauna, especially flowers and cats (large or small) and in birds.   The Living Desert had owls and hawks and eagles and mccaws, all of which are amazing, but seeing that hummingbird up close makes me think it was created on one of God’s best days.

OK, now you know where I’m going.   When it comes to creation, good things come in small packages.    Right?   Or are you in the the bigger the better camp?  (Hint.  Hint.  Those are the two thoughts.   I told you.  Upbeat.  And, oh well,  at least it’s shorter than last week’s)   Are you more awed by the intricacies of a single snowflake under the microscope or the power of the ocean as the waves break on the beach during a storm?   By the fluorescent glow of a neon tetra in an aquarium or a whale breaching during breeding season?    By the Siamese cat curled purring in your lap or the cheetah bounding across the savanna at eighty miles an hour?     It would be hard to decide, I suppose, because there are so many wonders in our world.    Are you taking time to notice?   It is the antidote to the daily news.

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