I’m now some 24 years old, which means I’m a middle-aged parrot. So perhaps I should start to write my memoirs. A kind of potted history of how I proved to be the exception and defied human scientists who once claimed that “…. nothing intelligent can come out of an egg.” Well, that’s what they may have thought, but just look at what emerged! And I suppose that I do want to be remembered as being both brilliant and beautiful.
And what about my owner then? I wonder what he’d put down in his set of memoirs? Because he’s never been bright, and he’s certainly not that beautiful. And his biggest achievement in life has probably growing large onions. I always say each to their own. If that’s what floats his boat!
And in the world of humans, it seems that irrespective of whatever you do or achieve in life, or go on to record in your memoirs, there will always be someone trying to put you down. And it’s all because humans like to clamber over one another and come out on top of the pile. They want to become ‘king of the castle.’ So this is how their governments and regimes and corporate business all operate. Which means that in the future, it’s quite possible that some humans will look back at my owner and describe his onions as being ‘small and shrivelled’ even when they weren’t. And they may even claim that he was better at growing slugs, caterpillars and aphids!
But do you know something? I don’t think he’ll be too bothered by that. Because in order to get into Heaven, you need to have some humility. So that fame and glory and being the biggest and the best have never been for him. No, because he’d rather be nothing and yet gain everything, than have it all the other way round. So here’s a real blog first! Because this week, I’ve actually learnt something from him!
“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
(Andrew Murray: [1828-1917]: South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor)
Let God have your life. He can do more with it than you can.”
(Dwight Moody: [1837-1899]: American evangelist and publisher)
“Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve….”
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