I
was hiking up a trail this morning and came across a beautiful newly
woven spider web. I assumed it was new because the night before we had
torrential rain storms, something a delicate spider web wouldn’t have
survived. It got me thinking about life and how we weave our web,
making connections with people and things and building our world all
encased in our personal web.
Sometimes
there are events and turns in life that cause our web, our security,
to get destroyed or otherwise disrupted. Being the strong, persevering
humans we are we build and rebuild, and so it goes. We have this
wonderful capacity to continue moving forward, even if we have to
rebuild our web numerous times—just like a spider.
I
want to remember this the next time a storm (a major life event) comes
and takes out my web (causes angst and stress and disruption in my life
and home). I have the power to rebuild—every day if necessary—and
create another web and to create new connections in my life. And in this
rebuilding perhaps create a stronger web than the one before.
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