Five Minute Friday ~ Opportunity

 

It's back!

Joining up with Lisa Jo today for the first FMF of 2013! 

Yay!

Opportunity

"A cockroach 

has been turned into a fuel cell 

by tapping into its own body chemistry for electricity."

You know how sometimes you read or hear a news headline... and it sticks with you?

This was one of those headlines.

In fact, thinking back over 2012, it was one of those most memorable ones - for me.

Crazy, eh? I'm not sure why. I detest cockroaches... they're big, they make this horrible crunching noise when you kill them, they crawl up from the septic and sewage no matter how clean your house and some nights rampage through the kitchen leaving droppings, my oldest boy knows that certain tone of my voice that says I'm asking him to come and remove yet another dead one from somewhere in our house, the really big ones have really long antennas that wave around and hint of their presence long before you actually see the bug, they are gross and... they're just plain ugly. Some bugs and insects - the preying mantis, for example - I can find something cute, or at least something less than repulsively unattractive, about them. 

Not so with a cockroach. 

And then I read articles like this...

I remember my fascination with the potential and the possibilities of the Bionic Man - that old tv series I remember watching, and loving, as a little girl with my parents (though personally, I liked the Bionic Woman better)...

And I think of one of my most favorite ever quotes, composed by Ranier Maria Rilke in a letter he sent to a younger writer he was mentoring ~

 "How shall we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples,

myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses?

Perhaps all the dragons of lives are princesses

only waiting to see us,

once, beautiful and brave..."

And I remember how only God takes and turns ugly-terrible-scary-painful-incomprehensible-unjust... even though I may not ever see it with my own temporal eyes... into so much more, so much better

When I lean gently back into His hands, His arms everything - ALL, NO. MATTER. WHAT. - is opportunity.

That's what I want to remember as I think back on 2012 and step forward into 2013.

Thankfully, I found this one OUTSIDE the house after the cats had been playing with it.
It would have easily taken up the palm of my hand. 

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