What Are You Tuned Into?

There is a little story about a busy street corner in the city. One man asks, "Do you hear that?" The other says, "All I hear is the cars, people and city noise". The other man says, "Can you hear the cricket chirping?" The other man, after listening carefully, tunes in to a cricket chirping coming from the base of a tree, surrounded by a small patch of grass, and a decorative, iron fence at the base of the tree. The one man drops some coins, and everyone around them immediately begins looking on the ground around them.

Even though I do not live in the most beautiful place, I thank God for the toads in my backyard, that live under the bricks, by my water spigot. I also love seeing the red-faced ibises and whistling ducks as they head out for work in the morning.