The Dove

Today I remembered my story in this....

My children found a dove with a broken wing today and we went to the thrift store and got a cage. I gave it water with a dropper and it lives.
This evening the kids found another dove on the sidewalk and I just spent 30 minutes with it while it passed of what appears to be poisoning.
I love the life around me yet I see so much destruction and death.
My story.
I showed my daughter how to respect death and to support the dying. I am angry at how much disrespect is shown to the dying around us.
Although some may respect the living and even support them in their effort, where are those who have the eyes to see all of the souls walking in death around us.

I posted the 10 commandments not to be a "holy Roller" but to think of the greater story. How many are murdered by the anger in our hearts ,words and thoughts around us and how that is the case even under our very own roofs.

We have 10 great big "thou shall not's and thou shall's" Every thing has its opposites.
Lets give life, lets be grateful for what we do have, lets remove all those things that wedge there way up above God in our minds and hearts. How about speaking the truth and telling our neighbors and loved ones and friends how awesome they are and how much they mean to us. Lets live as Mothers and Fathers worthy of the respect our office deserves.
I fall so short in all these "shall's" that I want to remember the greater story. I want it to go well for me among the land of the living! Not because I pay some pious preacher man ten percent of my wage, but because I hear Gods' voice telling me to do so. With Moses several heard the voice of God while most others didn't bear the sound of it and wanted someone else to tell them what they were supposed to do.

It is so easy to do what is wrong.
It is so easy to get pissed off like Moses did. Frustrated with others even my own kids and miss out on this promise land of Gods favor. I want to enter in to it. I don't want all this walking around and "sweating it out" to be for nothing. I want my "story " to matter. I don't want to just be some human "doing" I am a Human being. I want to be listening to the agreements (the covenant) I live under for the good. I want to be a shall and shall not-er just because I hear HIM telling me that it is the best thing for me and all those around me. Being a human being in the land of the living, having life, even in the midst of struggles; watching it going well for me.
I want to support others too so that it will go well for those lives around me.

The Dove, living here in the little cage resting and the one out in the dumpster decomposing both matter to me and they are a part of "my story". It is who I am.
Whats Your "story" ?
Who are you?
Are you wanting it all to matter, all that you are and do and say and think?
Just a rant about life.