perhaps...

A couple of weeks ago I noticed a spider web in the corner of a water fountain at Kavanna House. 

My thoughts went to the amazingness of a spider's web and yet how delicate.  It can withstand a mighty wind, and forceful downpour, yet with the swipe of a broom it is gone in an instant. And that is only the beginning of the intricacies of a spider and it's web...

...for some reason this morning when I saw this picture I thought of Charlotte's Web.  As I was reading some quotes from this great children's movie, this one stood out to me....

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Pondering this today: 

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle...