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Encouraging Joy & Grace

EVER BEEN ATTACKED BY BEES?

9/7/2019

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This September I'm working through Jon Acuff's SeptemberJanuary challenge. The idea is to use the momentum of back to school just like a New Year's resolution. I've got six (maybe seven or eight) speaking events between now and Christmas so I'm working on these speeches as my goal every day this month. 

This story and application to life came to me this week while I was thinking about the idea of God as our father.   Let me know what you think.  Do you have other insights about Father God? 

When I was about ten years old we went camping. Not fancy camping. Out in the boonies, no bathrooms or electricity camping. My dad would take us fishing weaving our way around high mountain streams.  The trout we caught would shimmer in the sunshine. We’d cook the trout over the fire and finish the night with marshmallows.

One time my sister and a friend and I were out playing in the woods just to the side of our campsite.  I’m not the most observant person so I didn’t see the large yellow jacket hive until I stepped right on top of it.
 
The yellow jackets were not impressed.

 Imagine if you had your house crushed.  You’d probably fight back. The bees certainly did. 


I started to yell as the stinging spread. My friend grabbed my little sister and ran for cover. I started to try and head back to the campsite while flailing my arms about and yelling and screaming. As I crashed through the brush I had bees in my shirt, down my pants, stinging - stinging - stinting - crying.

And then my father showed up. He’d heard me screaming and came running. He grabbed me, picked me up and ran toward camp. He held his arms with me in them over the campfire. I was freaked out by the bees and now the fire but I trusted my dad.

Turns out my dad knew bees don’t like smoke and it worked like a charm.

Off the bees went and left me alone.  My mom brought out the meat tenderizer and we made a paste for each of the stings.  I was covered head to toe.  My dad was stung as well.  He didn't complain.


You see this is what a father does: 
    Hears his child’s cry.
    Runs toward the pain even at risk of himself.
    Knows sometimes being held over a fire is the way to the cure. 

I see this same story played out in the Bible.  Do you? 
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Kathy Hellem
9/14/2019 03:39:35 pm

What a camping trip!!! Great story and I liked how you tied in trusting of your own father, not knowing why he was dragging you over to the fire. Good to know they don’t like smoke!

We don’t always know why bad things happen. It’s comforting to know we can trust god won’t give us more than we can handle. Sometimes it doesn’t feel that way though until we look back.


Thanks, for this real life story.

Kathy

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Dina Elizabeth Elliott Hovde
9/16/2019 07:29:18 pm

This is a beautiful story. I love that you knew your dad had you. This story is such a great example of how God often doesn't make sense to us, but he's got us. Somehow.
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And we never fail to have things in common, my friend! I was on a camping trip that my dad was leading when I was about 10. I ran into a hive. A younger girlfriend went running for cover as I "started to yell as the stinging spread," trying to "head back to the campsite while flailing my arms about .... As I crashed through the brush, I had bees in my shirt, down my pants, stinging - stinging - stinting - crying."
Ahhh. I remember it well. I think there were 42 stings that day.
I've never flinched near a bee since. ;)

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Mindy
9/16/2019 09:31:05 pm

Yes! There is something about having the worst ever anything that makes the average threat ho-hum. I used to be afraid of bats. Then in Africa I was around thousands of their “giant bats” humongous! And now the bats we have are no biggie.

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