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INTEGRITY TO INSTINCT
One day I came suddenly and silently from behind a huge evergreen tree and took by surprise a large beige colored bird. I stopped suddenly fascinated by his actions. Instantly he hovered close to the brown earth, near a rock, and tried with all the slender force within him to simulate that thing. It was the only thing he knew how to do. I could see the blessed heart of him fluttering with fear, but he was remaining true to instinct and was doing the only thing he knew how to do at that moment, and that was enough. His fearful eye was watching me, the enemy, but something within him kept saying "stay on," it is the only way. I hastily withdrew to a secluded place where I could watch him. He was not deluded by this decoy but stayed on for five minutes, and then like a javelin thrown into the air, he rose and flew to freedom. I was terribly impressed by it all. I remembered many times when I had not been true to my "instinct" - my knowledge, however small, that "I was born of God" and that I could call upon HIM - that I could - "having done all - stand" and see and hear and experience the Presence. But the human fear-thing was so great that I had often tried to use outside methods to help, and always with small success. "He shall cover thee with His feathers and under His wings shall thou abide" - and a thousand other lovely things - things of "instinct" to adhere to when the sudden thrust of the enemy comes unexpectedly. |
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