That's one of the most beautiful analogies that I've seen.
OK, I'm going to tell a story that I've related before on another forum.
One day hiking deep in the woods, as was my habit and profession, I observed a spider's nest. It was one of many that I often cursed as I wiped them from my brow while moving through the forest. Every stick and stump had one, or so it seemed.
I swore to myself, that web is just like my life. A perfect mess, chaotic, built without reason or plan. It didn't look like a nest at all, but more like a clump of dust under the couch in a home where lived a large, furry, and shedding dog. No self-respecting spider would claim such a nest. Why not build one of those beautiful webs like those you see pictures of in magazines, dripping with gems of dew, and reflecting back the beauty of the world?
No, this web was a mess.
But a shaft of light pierced the dense canopy of the forest and rested on this very web as if to reveal a mystery just for me. In that shaft of light I could see the internal structure of that dust bunny of dog fur. I could see that the spider had constructed a perfect hemispherical cavity, like an inverted bowl or maybe the canopy of stars that passed over my head at night.
There in the perfect universe he created for himself, the spider lay in wait for his dinner.
I never again doubted the wisdom hidden in chaos or that there is a God. It takes only a shaft of light through the canopy, just in the right spot, to illuminate a miracle. |
