One afternoon, just this past summer, I noticed a fleet of dragon flies in the yard, so I quickly pulled up a deck chair to watch them. What a delight to see them swooping about here and there, in their joyful haphazard flight patterns. The journey of these tiny helicopters, buzzing low over our grass and flowers, was swift and sure as each one took it’s own direction. Never once, though, observing their frenzied flight, did I worry that there would be a collision. Instead, my thoughts took me back to earlier in the day, when I worried that the mosquitoes were getting bad, and would keep me out of my garden. Now I knew that my rescuers had arrived.
I have other dragonfly memories. One sunny summer day, as I was sitting on the dock, one of these beautiful winged insects flitted persistently about me, landing on my big toe, taking off, and then returning to rest there again. It was a simple delight, and I understood it to be a personal gift from the Lord, and so His presence felt near. Another memory comes, and again I am sitting on the dock, this time in the evening with my parents, when suddenly our peace was disrupted by a swarm of mosquitoes humming over our heads. Just as suddenly our helpers were there! Almost as if out of nowhere, a fleet of tiny ‘copters zoomed in on the scene. We watched the defenceless mosquitoes being swiftly and purposefully taken out one by one. Up and down zigzagged these tiny rescue machines on paths that were anything but random. Each one had a target, and not one mosquito was missed. The mission was accomplished! What a performance they gave us! My mom often comments that she will never see a better show.
I have to agree. Yet there is a better show if I look with my spiritual eyes. If I put my name into Deuteronomy 33:26, it’s an even better picture. “There is none like God, O Linda, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in His majesty.” He sent me dragonflies to remind me of Him. He is personal, and He is for me. “How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalm 139:17
This is a “Water to Wine” moment in an otherwise ordinary day.