Silly flies !

If you ever watched a fly, you may have come to the same conclusion as I did the other day when watching one—they are silly. I watched a fly for perhaps ten minutes as it kept flying into the glass on a window trying to get out. The operative word there is “kept” because it did it for probably a half dozen times before it seemingly decided that something was in the way of its forward progress to the outside world that I assume it was looking at. Then it went to another nearby window where the process repeated itself. Silly fly. It just wanted to be free.

Watching the fly reminded me of me. Perhaps that tale may remind you of you as well. I looked back at the time in my life when I could see something better for myself, a better way of life, a deeper meaning, a longing for a sense of being real, of being free. That was a dark time in my life, and I just kept beating myself in the head trying to find that freedom—from the me that I no longer liked. I was that fly in the window—I saw it, I knew it was there, but I couldn’t get past the self-imposed stumbling blocks in my way. All I wanted to do was to be free of the crap in my life.

Freedom came in the form of one thing. Surrender. I had to surrender myself to One greater than myself, God. In doing so, my window to a better self, a brighter future that was predicated upon spiritual health, and freedom was opened. Not by me, but by God. This fly was able to finally get where he longed to be—free.

Are you one of those silly flies that keeps running into the window? You don’t have to be.