“I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beeheld an eerie sight…”
Actually, I was in the shed, it was the middle of the day, and the sight wasn’t eerie, just unsettling. Two yellow jackets flew in. I’d recently been stung by one so being cooped up with two didn’t thrill me.
They hovered around the entrance. The shed doors were wide open and it wasn’t hard to see how to escape. Soon one did.
But the other one? Around and around it buzzed. Up to the ceiling, over to one side, back to the other, bumping against the transom window above the doors. Over and over. Did it not see the wide open doors? Thinking that light coming through the window might be confusing it, I snuck up to the front and covered the window. It didn’t help. Now it just stayed up near the ceiling.
And as I watch this bee, that couldn’t seem to find its way out of the shed despite the fact that the doors were wide open, it reminded me of our journey with the Course. Aren’t we all a lot like the bee – bumping up against the ceiling, going from side to side, thinking the view through a window shows us the Light, but missing the wide open doors that actually leads to it?
“The key to the door to peace” is in our own hand.” Lesson 65. Yet we keep trying to find our way through windows that don’t open instead of doors that do.
The bee finally did fly out to, my great relief. But then it flew back in again. How dumb is that? But I guess we have only to look to our own lives to see how dumb we have chosen to bee.