Change lessons from Woody Woodpecker

We were in the the woods this morning, and as I mentioned in a previous blog, they now tend to leave dead trees standing or where they fall and this wood seems to have more than its fair share of trees that were damaged in the hurricane or just dead.  This tree has been converted into a series of desirable, multi-story residences by the woodpeckers.  This is a real picture of one of them going in and feeding their young, who tweet loudly (like so many celebs) letting their parents know they are hungry. 

They have taken a piece of rotting wood and used it to shape a secure home and to provide food for their young.  Like they sing in Chitty chitty Bang bang, “From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!”  We can and should learn from our setbacks and build on them, in the end they shape our character and our lives.  It is not what happens to us that measures us but our responses… 

Change comes whether we like it or not (In this case the tree died), and end lead to a new beginning as it inevitably does, and from this death sprung new life. 

Tags: choices, setbacks, woodpeckers

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