After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast....because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.'
"He will cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you will find refuge.’ (Psalm 91:4)
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Cat adopts and nurses ducklings:
Sometimes the maternal instinct is so strong that animal mothers take care of little animals from different species. This amazing cat takes care of both kittens and some ducklings.
She treats them as equal and they are getting proper attention. It seems that they like their new mother too.
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such is the love that parents have for their children that they are willing to sacrifice their own life for them.
ReplyDelete“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (2 Sam. 18:33)
Abraham tested:
Delete2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offeringon a mountain I will show you.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will providethe lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven,“Abraham! Abraham!”“Here I am,” he replied.12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
What about God sacrificing his own son!
DeleteYeah,...what kind of parent would do dat?!
DeleteThe kind that kill their own children!
DeleteKilling a child is pure evil.
DeleteWe are all chilren of God!
ReplyDeletewe each have a life to give:
One day while sitting in meditation under the bodhi tree,Siddhartha was disturbed by a dove wch fluttered into a fold of his clothing.A hawk wch had been chasing the dove landed nearby and proceeded to berate Siddhartha for offering sanctuary to the dove...calling him a murderer and a baby-killer! The hawk demanded that Siddhartha give up the dove so that she could feed her babies who would otherwise starve to death.And so the Buddha was compelled to choose as to wch of these creatures should live and wch should die.Unable to give greater value to one over the other ,he proposed a novel solution to this moral dilemma.He reasoned that since both creatures had as much right to live as himself,he would provide food for the hawk's children of his own body.So he proceeded to rip the flesh from his arm and placing it on a scale wch appears before him.But the weight of his "gift" is not sufficient and the scale does not budge.So he tears the flesh/meat off his other arm.But it's still not enuf!So he throws his whole body onto the scale and the scale tips to show that finally he has given enough to balance the need on the other side. And thus the Buddha (like Christ who came after him) laerned the meaning of true selflessness--that it is only enough when we give all of ourselves, holding nothing back!
Only by transcending the ego can we enter the "consciousness of Oneness" wch is the mystical experience of god-realization.
"Use your life to serve the world"--Oprah Winfrey
What you do for yourself dies with you;What you do for others lives on !
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ReplyDeleteReproduction is the ultimate purpose of every organism, and this tyrannical instinct overpowers the intellect and coerces the human organism to immolate itself in marriage, parenthood, and the exhausting efforts to provide for offspring.