Life is Fragile and God is in Control by Jacob (a pilgrim)
Today we returned to Cayo Christian Academy to finish helping with the projects we started on Tuesday. We continued hauling rock and making pathways as well as sorting and stacking books, and mowing the weed infested yard. Instead of an edger or weed-eater, we used a machete to do the edges that couldn’t be reached with a lawnmower.
There was a dead palm tree that we began to hack at with the machete. A woodpecker had been seen flying into it earlier in the day, but when we looked into it, we didn’t see anything inside except ants. I ended up kicking the tree down. Then a featherless baby woodpecker came rolling out. We put it back into the tree, but it probably died within hours of me knocking down the tree.
Later in the evening a bat came into our house from the open porch. It flew around our living space blinded by the lights inside. We turned out the lights and opened the front door to try to lead it outside. It flew into a wall and ended up stunned on the floor and our youth pastor swept it outside with a broom.
Through my experiences today God showed me how fragile life is. but also that God is sovereign and in control. God is so much bigger than I am. He is in control and I need to trust Him. It is one thing when people tell you about God, but it is more personal and real when you experience Him yourself.