This true story I heard the other day was so good I just
have to share it.
It was an experience that
a zookeeper had. You see the zoo was receiving a dainty, beautiful new black rhino
named (there’s got to be a story behind this) Twinkle Toes. Her ladyship
arrived in a huge crate that had to be trucked across the zoo then hosted by
crane in to their rhino exhibit. Only problem being it seems the lady had a delicate
constitution at least for a rhino. She had gotten quite aggregated on the
journey there, all the strange sounds and smells the shadows sweeping across
her (rhinos have very poor eyesight so they rely heavily on hearing and smell)
and the shock of being moved from one truck to another had pushed her to the
breaking point, she began to shake and quiver all her senses where screaming
that she was in mortal peril that she HAD to get out of that box NOW! So she
started to smash her ton and a haft of feminine muscle against the walls of her
prison. The work men yelled to the crane operator “you’d better do this one
fast! “ Well he did the best he could
but you can only move an animal that big so fast safely. As he hoisted her in to
the air wood started to crack, over the pen wall fasteners popped loose, the
zoo keepers’ healed their breath as wood splintered and braces fell off. Still
ten feet in the air she crashed through the last vestiges of the crate’s wall
and sent it crashing down. A tear streaked face emerged and looked down at the
ground. Now that might not sound so dangerous but to a rhino a ten foot drop is
all most certain death. When you weigh 3000lbs the impact of a leap like that would
crush your internal organs. Tears further reduced her already pore vision and
her small bran was panic stricken, was she even able to realize not to jump? At
8ft she still stood there. 6ft …...5 . At 4ft she jumped, fell with all the grace
of a bolder and landed with a sickening thud. Her audience gasped even a 4ft
drop could cause potentially fatal injuries. After a moment she shakily got to
her feet apparently unhurt, but she was still shaking, crying and obviously
terribly afraid. The fall had only increase the stress she was under and as she
looked around her eye fell on a nearby bolder, she charged. The impact was so
great it knocked her off her feet and shoved the huge rock back a few inches.
As she got up she saw another bolder and charged this one again knocking herself
off her feet. This time she got up more slowly just standing there, quivering
with terror. They to the horror of the watching keepers she started to glisten
red. You see when some animals reach the absolute total limit of fright there capillaries
actually start to explode, causing them to sweat blood. This means our rhino
was beyond running in circles screaming, beyond fainting, she was on the edge
of literally scaring herself to death. All the zoo keeps could do was watch hoping
she would calm down. Eventually she did and after a few days she was ok, in
fact I’m guessing that when she met the dashing young gentlemanly rhino she probably
toted her traumatic experience like a crown jewel. And I’m sure they both lived
happily ever after.
What struck me about that story was at no time (except as a direct
result of her own doing) was she ever in danger. All she had to do was nothing and
she would have been fine. Even though from her prospective her vary existence
was on the line and she KNEW she HAD to do something NOW !! She used all the knowledge
and wisdom she had then tried with all her might to do what she figured out the
best cores of action was herself. I can’t
help but think we must look kind of like that rhino to God. When we see that
problem or that stressed relationship or new intolerable law we think ‘We’ve got
to do something to fix this!” God has us right where he wants us and our responds
is “ AAAAAAAAAA!!!! I’ve GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!” The Bible talks about Jesus
holding us in His hand and God covers us with His wings. We need to remember that
God has us where we are for a reason maybe for us maybe for someone else or to
glorify Him but He knows where we are and we are as safe there as it is possible to be. That said remember “And
fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but
rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Now please
I’m not saying we aren’t supposed to take the bull by the horns, go against the
flow esc. We just need to make sure we’re doing it because it’s what God wants
us to be doing not because it makes scents at the time.
Well that’s my 2 bits worth for the day hope I didn’t bore
you.
Rennuke
