DEER KATIE
BOB AND I WITNESSED A GOD MOMENT THIS WEEK. I LOOKED OUT MY WINDOW EARLY ONE MORNING AND SAW A MOMMA DEER LICKING HER MOMENTS OLD NEW FAWN AS IT WAS NURSING HER. WE WATCHED AS SHE LOVED ON THIS WOBBLY, FRAIL BABY.

SINCE MY CAMERA IS BROKEN AND UNABLE TO HELP ME ZOOM IN ON THIS PRECIOUS SIGHT, WE DECIDED TO QUIETLY WALK OUTSIDE AND TRY TO GET CLOSER. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THEN!!!!! MAMA DEER GRACEFULLY BOLTED OFF INTO THE WOODS, LOOKING BACK ENCOURAGINGLY AT HER LITTLE HELPLESS FAWN, AS IF HER LOOKING BACK COULD HURRY THOSE WOBBLY, FRAIL LEGS TO STRENGTHEN THEM FASTER AND MOVE HER BABY OUT OF DANGER. SHE HAS NO ARMS TO ENFOLD HER BABY SO SHE CAN PROTECT HER AND WISK HER AWAY TO SAFETY.

THIS IS THE GOD MOMENT….THAT LITTLE FAWN WENT AS FAR AS THOSE WEAK LEGS COULD TAKE HER AND THEN SHE PLOPPED DOWN, COMPLETELY FLAT TO THE GROUND, PLAYING DEAD!!!! WE WATCHED HER REMAIN MOTIONLESS AND EVEN WALKED UP RIGHT ON HER AND SHE NEVER MOVED. HER LITTLE EYES WERE WIDE OPEN, NOT EVEN BLINKING. I THOUGHT SHE REALLY WAS DEAD.

ALL THE WHILE HER MOMMA WATCHED FROM AFAR. HELPLESS!!!

HOURS OLD, GOD HAD PREPARED THIS INNOCENT, HELPLESS FAWN WITH WHAT IT NEEDED FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCE…….THE INSTINCNT TO PROTECT HIMSELF. MOMMA DEER HAD NOT HAD TIME TO TEACH THIS DEER ANY LIFE LESSONS. LITTLE DEER TAUGHT MAMA DEER A LIFE LESSON……
STOP, DROP AND REST……..BE STILL AND KNOW.

MAMA DEER RAN AWAY (I DO THIS OFTEN WHEN IN UNCOMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES!)
OF COURSE, I KNOW THAT GOD DID NOT TELL THAT DEER TO DROP….HE MADE IT THAT WAY! IT KNEW WHAT TO DO FOR PROTECTION BECAUSE IT WAS PART OF GOD’S PLAN FOR IT’S DEER LIFE.

TRUST HIM WITH EVERYTHING KATIE…..HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN……YOUR HUSBAND……YOUR FRIENDS. JUST STOP, DROP AND REST IN HIS PROVISIONS, HIS CARE…….AND DON’T SHUT YOUR EYES!!!!!! KEEP THEM FOCUSED ON HIM. HE IS AT WORK AND YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS OUT ON ANYTHING HE HAS FOR YOU.

I AM SINGING THESE HYMN WORDS IN MY MIND
HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU.

OH, BY THE WAY, WE WENT BACK IN THE HOUSE AND 5 MINUTES LATER, LITTLE DEER WAS GONE……SAFELY WITH HIM MOMMA I AM SURE. HOW THOSE WOBBLY LEGS GOT HIM SAFELY AWAY SO FAST, I WILL NEVER KNOW……BUT GOD DOES!!!!!

DEAR JESUS,
THANK YOU FOR MY DEER MOMENT…..AND THE REMINDER TO REST AND FIX MY EYES ON YOU.

6/3/11