Photo and Commentary ©2023 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, June 16, 2023
On a walk a little over a week ago next to the Lake Youngs Water Preserve, I noticed this amazing scene. I actually look forward to seeing this every year. In fact, years ago I wrote a Daily Photo Parable using a similar photo along this same fence.
I have no way of knowing whether these little spider webs are fresh this year, or a holdover from last year, or maybe even from further back. But I do know that at least along a half-mile stretch of this fence, every single set of wires has a tiny web between it.
So what happened? Spiders, of course. You’d think that the little insects would pause to ruminate a moment. “Wait a minute,” they might murmur in their rudimentary way. “I could get a whole lot more mileage out of my webmaking efforts if I made bigger webs. Oh, well, while I think about it, let me make another little web. Here goes!”
What’s happening here? Practice? Or just good old “go-to-the-ant-thou-sluggard” persistence? Who knows? One of my takeaways is that the same God who created spiders—vegetarian ones in Eden of course, according to the last couple of verses of Genesis 1—is also a persistent God when it comes to His children’s salvation. Here are a couple of links to Bible verses—one set about God, and one set about persistence (perseverance):
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/god
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/perseverance