WELLNESS
HEALING LESSONS from a Spider
R
ecently I was reading my book, enjoying the balmy weather of a summer night, when a movement out of the corner of my eye distracted me. As I looked to follow the object that had caught my attention, I noticed a small spider, not bigger than the tip of my pinky finger. I was it crawling down an almost invisible thread from a light fixture on the wall to the patio table where I sat. Now, I am not a fan of spiders, to put it mildly, and I was prepared to gently whisk him away, but instead of coming down to bother me, he went back up the way it had come. He was in the middle of making a web and using the table as an anchor. I put my book down and watched with amazement as the web took shape. This little guy worked steadfastly and without paying any attention to anything that happened outside the web. Nothing could take him away from the task at hand. As I was watching this spider, something about Nature became very clear to me. I realized