The Squirrel

Yesterday a black squirrel was racing across the wooden picket fence top gaining on a fat gray squirrel carrying a large nut in his mouth.

Today a gray squirrel was racing across the wooden fence trying to catch another fat gray squirrel running with a nut in his mouth…might have been the same gray squirrel.

I wondered why when there are so many nut trees around that the black and gray chaser squirrels didn’t go find their own food instead of expending all the energy chasing the one that did. They could have gone to the ‘source’ and gathered all the nuts they wanted and ran off to hide and eat them. Instead, they wanted to take from the one who had what they wanted…(who had to find it himself). They thought it would be easier to take what the other squirrel had earned rather than ‘earn’ their own acorns.

Oh, the dilemma! Mankind faces the same quest. Hopefully we can learn from the squirrels – there will be plenty to go around if we will only do our own looking and finding.

No need to beg or take from another. We are capable and able to acquire everything we need if we only decide we can.

Where will I go today to gather (earn) what I need?

It’s out there waiting for me.