Author Christy Angelette

A few years back, I witnessed a powerful visualization of strength I had never seen beyond a movie, between and ant and a bee. I observed a bee, laying on its back moving in the air, as if it was floating. Leaning in closer, I could see the bee was dead and being carried by a tiny ant. I watched the ant carry the bee all the way down several steps. Never dropping the bee or loosing it’s pace. You see this moment was prophetic and inspiring to me. I was in the midst of turmoil, during one of the weakest moments in my life as a woman, mother and wife. Depression and mental anguish had set in, crippling me from within. Leaning forward staring at that little ant, I thought there must be the same kind of extraordinary strength within me, to carry a weight heavy beyond measure and still stay focused on where I’m going. The bee had been defeated by death, but the ant would use that death to feed and nurture the life of his colony. Against all odds and tiny size, that ant had the strength to do the impossible. In comparison the bee was so much bigger, the equivalent of me carrying a car. I sat there, jaw to the floor in awe, as that little ant carried it, as if it was light as air. This occurred three years ago, and still this scene has stuck with me, just like that bee I have overcome extraordinary obstacles for the benefit of life, mines, my children and others I have yet to meet. To You whose reading this: don’t let the giants of your life overcome you. Your stronger thank you think, powerful enough to carry that pain, use it to nourish and restore life.

That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10 NLT