Bee Happy by Being Anxiously Engaged in a Good Cause

I recently reviewed an article of interest about a spritual lesson to be learned from the honey bee! The article was the text of a talk by M. Russel Ballard, I have included a portion of that herein:

"My father always tried to involve me in his work with his hives, but I was very happy to let him tend to his bees. However, since those days, I have learned more about the highly organized beehive—a colony of about 60,000 bees.

Honeybees are driven to pollinate, gather nectar, and condense the nectar into honey. It is their magnificent obsession imprinted into their genetic makeup by our Creator. It is estimated that to produce just one pound (0.45 kg) of honey, the average hive of 20,000 to 60,000 bees must collectively visit millions of flowers and travel the equivalent of two times around the world. Over its short lifetime of just a few weeks to four months, a single honeybee’s contribution of honey to its hive is a mere one-twelfth of one teaspoon.

Though seemingly insignificant when compared to the total, each bee’s one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey is vital to the life of the hive. The bees depend on each other. Work that would be overwhelming for a few bees to do becomes lighter because all of the bees faithfully do their part."

Perhaps, if each of us would spend more of our time and energies in sharing the burdens of our families and communities, and less worrying over our challenges, we would find a measure of relief from our own burdens. (Republished from 03/08/2013)