Trust Mother Nature!

Story: There was a man who had a hen and a dozen good eggs, and he wanted to raise some chickens. Somehow or other he had to get the hen and the eggs together.

Now the hen was willing, and he was willing, but if he kept the hen in the yard and the eggs in a basket, nothing would happen.

It was necessary to put the eggs under the hen because she knows what to do with them. She just sits on them for 21 days, rolls them over once in a while and clucks to herself as she contemplates the happy event that is to take place.

You see, the hen doesn’t know how to make a chicken any more than you and I do, but by some internal guidance, she knows how to sit on them, and there she sits as though she were guided by God’s Intelligence. (which, of course, she really is!) The hen obeys this divine urge within her, and so she sits.

And sure enough, in due season, life stirs inside the shells and the little chicks come forth ready to start the business of living on their own.

When the hen sits on the egg, the hen is not making the baby chick. It’s creating the environment for the intelligence of the chick to emerge. We too must take time to sit quietly and make the mental space for the intelligence of the universe to emerge as the right action of our desires.

Well, you and I are not chickens and we are not eggs, but we could learn a lot from that hen. Have you or I ever sat on an idea consistently for 21 days without ever leaving it? Have we rolled it over each day in our imagination, like the hen does the eggs, in happy anticipation of what is going to happen?