Are you like a dragonfly?

Dragonflies are absolutely beautiful creatures. Their iridescent wings glitter in the summer sun around ponds, lakes, and wetlands all around the world. In fact, if you google for dragonflies, you’ll find literally thousands and thousands of web sites about them, and not just university professors and naturalists sponsor these sites. There are societies of people like you and me that study dragonflies, landscape their yards to attract them, and share what they learn with others.

Dragonflies inspire everything from beautiful jewelry to fairy tales. These tiny creatures trace their ancestry back millions of years.

And yet, did you know that most dragonflies live only about a month? And that basically during that month, all they do is eat and reproduce?

If you only had about a month to live, what would you do? Probably the best thing you could do would be what the dragonfly does—nourish your spirit so that you can reproduce the beauty that God’s given you. So be a dragonfly as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.