My Widowed Duck
Papa Duck has disappeared. Probably a predator. Coyote. Mama Duck has been faithfully setting on about 30 eggs for three months!!! She hatched just one and it died three days later. The rest os the eggs are slowly rotting. But with her God-created center of faithful setting inborn, she continues to set set set set set.
I now feed her out of a pan where she sets and she quacks a response of thankfulness. She has gotten so trusting of me, a couple of days ago, when I arrived she left her nest to quickly run to the water to take a quick bath, drink some water, spray her surroundings with her pleasant shaking.
But my widowed duck is not the same without a papa around the house. It is obvious she is lonely, bewildered, troubled, and perplexed. So she just continues to set set set set set.
But we can learn from Mama Duck
A) She didn't abandoned "her nest" when her husband disappeared.
B) She remained faithful to her task at hand, although heart-broken
C) She has gone the second and third mile with a continued seemingly hopeless setting---what faithfulness
D) She responds to love and care, appreciating the fact that I am not harsh and threatening with her
E) She now trusts me to get close to her, realizing I'm not a "wolf in sheeps clothing" - her venture to let me "protect" her eggs while drinking and bathing, touched my heart. I could not betray such trust
F) She demonstrates God's goodness by living out her duck qualities as God ordained.
G) She is not rebellious because of the disappointments and sorrow in her life
We should be so ducky----er lucky.
Old Man Barney |
