I thank
Elohim God for allowing me to see a precious scene while passing by a lake on a sunny day.
A father duck, mother duck, and seven ducklings….
They were so pretty. When I approached them, the father duck and the mother duck,full with alarm, quickly took their ducklings to the waterside.
I guess it was time for food; they came out again right away.
The father duck first set an example getting out of the water to the shore, as if it was saying,
‘You go out like this.’
One,two, three, four…. The ducklings went out.
But the three young ones couldn't manage themselves getting out.
Feeling pity for the ducklings, the mother duck gave a demonstration again, jumping out of the water to the shore.
One out of the three ducklings in the water tried, but it couldn’t come out. The other two of them were just looking at it.
But one of the ducklings that came out earlier and looked like the eldest, jumped into the water and took the three youngest ones to another place.
In our assumption, they seem to be finding a lower land shore.
Despite of their search, there weren't any place better.
They didn't know that their parents have picked the best place.
So the four ducklings again went to the place where their parents were, but they passed the place where the mother duck demonstrated how to jump. Suddenly, a large swan appeared and threatened them.
When the dreadful swan appeared, the ducklings cried out and ran away from it continuously.
Hearing the ducklings’ cry, the mother duck stopped feeding itself and lifted up its head to realize the situation.
For a while,the mother and the father duck seemed to be having a conversation.
Then, the father duck took the three ducklings that already came ashore to a safe place. Cleaving through the water, following the sound of the ducklings’ cry, the mother duck went looking for the ducklings.
We were so impatient seeing the mother duck busily looking for the young ones. Seeing that it couldn’t easily find them, we pointed out with our fingers to the place where the young ones were.
But the mother duck couldn't understand us. Suddenly I thought that the angels would have been feeling this way also.
The mother duck fortunately found the ducklings, and it was quite on alert. Flapping its wings it wailed to threaten us and to the swan close by.
The mother duck and the ducklings that were wandering around in water finally met dramatically, and so they went to the safe place where the father duck and the rest of the ducklings were.
Seeing this scene, I felt
Heavenly Mother’s deep love.
I truly thank
Heavenly Mother for worrying for us, Her children who sinned and came to this earth would lose the way, always protecting us from Satan, and for finding us, worrying that we have got sidetracked.
It is true that it wouldn't be safe for us until we go to heaven, without the protection of Father and Mother.
Though the father and the mother duck delivered their ducklings to the place that was most suitable to come ashore, the ducklings lost their way trying to find a better place on their own.
Seeing this scene, I thank
Elohim God for giving me the realization that I should follow
Father and Mother’s will instead of my thoughts in order to go to heaven.
I will become a child being more obedient to
Father and Mother’s words.
