"Are you squirrelly?"

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You know I’m not a real big fan of squirrels. I call them “tree rats.” The truth is I have no use for them at all.

But recently as I took a break from doing yard work—and this is hard for me to admit—I learned something from a squirrel. I watched one playing in an oak tree. He was really small, and looked like this was his first summer.

I thought about how this fall would be his first also. And how he would be digging around in my mulch beds, looking for nuts and hiding them for the winter. Then I wondered, “How will he know to store nuts for the winter?”

And I realized that God put that instinct into the squirrel to know how to care for himself. And I’ll bet that squirrel never worries a single minute if there will be enough nuts to go around. He just collects them.

I hate to admit this, but that squirrel is smarter than me at times. Sometimes I worry about there not being enough nuts to go around, don’t you?

Be squirrelly today. Do what God puts in front of you to do and trust. There’s plenty to go around as you listen to life and make a life.

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