Love

Garden Spider by Cynthia Bergsbaken Photography

Have you ever read the book titled Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White?  

I remember in second grade; our teacher took time every day to read us this story.  It’s about a pig and a spider that become best friends.  The spider helps the pig escape his fate of being slaughtered.  Throughout helping Wilber, the pig, the spider mother was guarding her egg sack, waiting to die.  The story made a big impact on me. 

Well, a couple of summers ago, I had the blessing of watching a large mother spider live her life.

 

At first, I was, “yuk” a huge spider.  But as I watched her form a spider web in my basement window well, I was curious.  The spider picked a corner of my window-well to create her life.  She spun her web and each day she waited for food to fly into it.  As the summer grew warmer, I noticed a large, dark tan colored sack sitting in the middle of her web.  As I looked closer, I realized she was soon to be a mother.  

 

Each day she stood close to the cottony looking bag.  She sat in the hot sun, guarding the sack.  She sat through heavy rainstorms watching over her family.  Each night she remained close to guard it from any intruders.  As she guarded her family, I noticed she was becoming thinner.  She did not eat or move while guarding her soon to be children.  

 

Then one day, as in Charlotte’s Web, she fell and died.  She never did see her children being born.  The egg sack, soon after her death, broke open allowing many baby spiders to crawl off into the wilderness to follow in their mother’s footsteps.

 

As with people, we see animals and other creatures demonstrate love-love for their family- their children.  They also sacrifice themselves for their children.  The love of a parent! 

 

Next time you see a spider, a little critter, or a plant, remember that they too feel and love.  People are not the only ones who feel & love each other.   

Take time to observe nature and find the beauty in it.

Take time to show and share your love to the ones in your life that you love.  Take time to show and share love to those that love you.

 

Written by Cynthia Bergsbaken of Reiki in the Prairie LLC

Written for The Perceptive Blogger

Feb. 5, 2019

Disclaimer by Reiki in the Prairie LLC and Cynthia Bergsbaken copyright 2015

I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor.  These articles I have written, are from reading and experiencing them.  Many of these articles are my own experiences with my own inventions to heal as well.

If you have a medical condition-physically/mentally/emotionally, please see a qualified medical doctor.  Do not substitute my articles for proper medical care.  You are too important to the world.

I have used all procedures I have written about and have found them to be helpful as tools to help myself become a better person.   I am sharing them with you because used as a tool, they are helpful in Shadow working on ourselves.  (Shadow working is healing our inner shadows that are unconscious or subconscious.  Inner shadows are our belief systems, our thoughts, our behaviors, our life experiences.)

I created this blog for my Reiki clients originally.  Combining these tools with Reiki creates a happy, healthy person.  These tools, when used alone are also beneficial!

 

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