Life Under a Rock

From a distance, I had watched the Canadian geese, seagulls, crows, and other birds hang out all day along the shore line of the Pudget Sound.

Day after day, I watched the tide go out and come back in. During low tide, the birds were busy below and I wanted to see what they were up to.

When I got to the shoreline, there wasn’t much except rocks and empty clam shells that I guess the birds had eaten. Not much other signs of life and so I walked around shifting some small rocks around with my boots trying to see if there were any treasures.

It wasn’t until when I bent down, got low, and turned over a heavy rock that I found it. Life. Lots of life. Tons and tons of little crabs all hiding under the rocks from the birds during low tide, staying put.

But as soon as I lifted that rock, I disturbed their world and they scrambled for safety and desperately searched for another spot to get under as quickly as possible because they didn’t want to be exposed to the open air where danger lurked and where they could dry out.

I guess that’s why some people seem like they are living life under a rock. They are afraid of what could happen or the possibility of “drying out” if exposed. We will disturb them if we lift the rock, but we can encourage them when we remind them that God cares for them and doesn’t want them to stay there forever.

Do you, or someone you know, spend much of life under a rock?

You just may find peace by piece in allowing others back into your life, getting out, and reconnecting again.

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life.” -Matthew 6:26-27