B Y A L T H E A S . M I L L E R C atch him , P aul !” Althea screeched as she ran to her desk fo r a jar. “ Here!” she panted as she and her brother, knees on the floor, maneu vered a small spider into the jar. “ At last a spider! Now I can get to my term project. Thanks for help ing, Paul.” “ You’re welcome,” her brother re plied with an e xagg e r a t ed bow. “Next time don’t scream so loud. You sounded like a whistling teakettle.” For weeks Althea hovered over her spider, feeding flies, adding drops of water to the jar, studying and de stroying the webs the insect wove in his attempt to escape from his prison. An occasional second spider was added. One day spider one died. Be fore his demise he had caused Althea some anxious moments. He’d escaped from the jar by climbing a web, but was recaptured; he was finicky in eating, refusing most of the spider delicacies offered him. Still our girl hovered over him. My daughter’s experience with the spider set me to thinking of simi larities in working with people. Through the wooing of the Holy Spirit in answer to prayer, I have “ captured” them for Christ. It hasn’t been easy to understand all their needs resulting from background de ficiencies, or to nourish them with proper spiritual food they deliberate ly reject. Friendship was often nulli fied by others in the “ family” who were not about to be friendly. I too, have known frustration, grief. Were my efforts in vain? Then I remembered “ . . . be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abound ing in the work of the Lord, foras much as ye know your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (I Cor. 15:58). Althea, your efforts were not in vain. You know more about spiders now than when you first began your proj ect. You learned the spider could not be manipulated to do your will. I’ve learned more about people. Maneu- verings on my part are worthless; only God’s Holy Spirit can create noble motivation.
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