Cecille B. DeMille, the famous motion-picture director, was a man of great talents and keen insights. He like to go off by himself at times to think out a problem. One such time, when he was faced with some vexing personal problems, he went out in a canoe on a lake in the state of Maine. After a while, the canoe floated onshore to a place where the water was only a few inches deep. Looking down, DeMille saw that the bottom of the lake was crowded with beetlelike bugs. As he watched, one of the water beetles came to the surface of the water and slowly crawled up the side of the canoe. Finally, reaching the top, it grasped fast to the wood and died. DeMille soon forgot the beetle, and his thoughts went back to his own problem. Several hours later, he happened to notice the beetle again and saw that, in the hot sun, its shell had become very dry and brittle. As he watched, the shell slowly split open, and there emerged from it a new form, a dragonfly, which took to the air, its scintillating colors flashing in the sunlight. That winged insect flew farther in an instant than the water beetle had crawled in days. Then it circled back and swooped down to the surface of the water. The water beetles below might have seen the shadow, too, but now their erstwhile companion was in a world beyond their comprehension. They were still living in their limited world while their winged cousin had gained for himself all the freedom between earth and sky. Later, when DeMille told of this experience, he concluded with a very penetrating question. Would the great Creator of the universe, he asked, do that for a water beetle and not for a human being? ( from livinglifefully dot com )
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:15:27 +0000
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