Paul’s Blog: Not All About Rabbits

Its been a while since I have put here any news about my rabbits.
Late last year, Stychrome, the wild one, died. He has really old. I was sad about it at the time but it is a sad fact of life in this world that things die all the time.
We buried him in the garden and put a big brick on top, and some flowers on that.
Photo: Stychrome at his prime. Click for Video in new window.
Katrina the (boy) rabbit was upset. You could tell he knew. Stychrome’s house was still there but he was empty and it made me feel a bit empty too looking at it. It is really strange to see something alive one minute and then dead. Physically its the same but it has no life. Is this the reverse of what happened when God breathed life into Adam? (Genesis 2:7)

Just as death is horrible, it is wonderful that God creates life, and even allows us to continue living. And there is another kind of life called Spiritual life. Because life made out of flesh, as I have just been talking about, will always decay and die, if we are to live forever (as Jesus promised for those who believed in him) then we have to be reborn of the Spirit. Living things on earth can only recreate the same type of life, which eventually dies, but God gives true life.(See John 3)

Back to the rabbits: Katrina was very depressed so I borrowed my brother’s wife’s rabbit which is a big fat lop eared blob compared to Katrina. We put her in Stychrome’s old house after we cleaned it. That cheered them both up a bit. Then near the end of December Katrina got very sick and was collapsed - which is the the technical term for when their legs cant hold them up and they cant even move to go to the toilet. I thought he was going to drop dead as well but I took him to the Vet and the Animal Hospital which ended up costing heaps but a few days later he was back home. They said to keep him in a cool place so I had an excuse to put the air conditioner on.It was 40 Degrees C outside. He was still sick as anything and for some reason would only eat carrots so I was dipping the carrot in other things to try to get him to eat it!.

Photo: Katrina at the vet, much better than he was. Click for full size.

After another few days he was ready and eager to go back outside so I let him out. At first he was still weak and just sat in his house but he started to get more and more adventurous and go into the yard. I would say hes back to normal now except he likes to sit still a lot. Hes an old man rabbit now. The lop-ears has gone somewhere else much to Katrina’s disappointment.

Photo: Katrina next to Belinda, feeling a bit better but tired. Click for full size.

Paul

I watched a film the other day when i was visiting my parents called ‘Its a Wonderful Life’. Its an old black and white film but they story is nice. Aridhi tells me that the story of it is very similar to a book she read too.

What it made me think of is what effect do I have on the world and people around me? In the film the main character, George gets to see what his town would be like if he had never existed. If I had never existed would things be better or worse overall? How do we know what is the right choice or the right thing to do to make things better?
I believe that by seeking God and learning his ways, then life will be as good as it can be. In the film George seems to instictively do the right thing, or sometimes he is forced into it, but he always make the right choice of the options he has. Even though he is frustrated because he feels that his own dreams have not come about he continues to do right (Until he has his breakdown at which point God helps him in answer to prayer). George realises in the end that he has more than enough to make him happy, and also all the good he has done outweighs what he has suffered, and to make a happy ending everyone in the town comes to help him and they show their appreciation for what he has done for them.

Things will not ever be exactly how we want them, whether we follow God or not, but we can be sure that since God is the ultimate wisdom and he loves us, then following him and learning his ways will help us to choose much better in the choices we have in life.

Who can we learn from to help us make good decisions? If we say the world is in a bad state then why is it like that? Should we take advice from society when we know the result already. God promises a better way