Last night it got cold.\u00a0 This morning the hornets are gone, and I didn’t have to do a thing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I guess\u00a0sometimes the easiest battle you ever fight is the one you never fight.<\/p>\n
This summer, we noticed a hornets’ nest up in the magnolia tree.\u00a0 It was right in the front yard and I was afraid someone would get stung so I prepared to do battle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A can of\u00a0Wasp and Hornet Spray was the weapon of choice.\u00a0\u00a0 I was calculating when I should strike so as to provide minimum danger to me and maximum casualty to the hornets.\u00a0 Then someone made an interesting suggestion:\u00a0 “Why don’t you just leave them alone.\u00a0 They die in the winter anyway.”<\/p>\n
It just didn’t seem right, leaving that dangerous nest there.\u00a0\u00a0 They don’t say, “Mad as a hornet” for nothing.\u00a0 But then I thought about the fact that we had been mowing grass right under that tree for half the summer before we even noticed the nest.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe these hornets were not so “mad” after all.\u00a0\u00a0 No, the real mad one would have been me.\u00a0 Out there fighting a battle I didn’t have to fight,\u00a0because God had it taken care of.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why should I worry about a hornet problem when God already had that battle won?\u00a0 He’s the one who created hornets as well as the seasons of Fall and Winter.\u00a0 Perhaps I should trust Him to take care of a few more of my battles.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 He had the outcome of this hornet thing figured out at the foundation of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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