Adversity or Prelude to Blessings?

Rats. The camera shut down after just one picture. I followed the pretty dragonfly toward the pond but then gave up when I spied...a charming little elf-like sparrow peeking out from behind a large rock.

Did he see me? I began sketching him from the shade of the tree he kept hopping towards, and I continued doing so until I had completed the monochrome version of today's drawing (I colored it at home). If the battery hadn't run out, I would've probably tried to photograph the bird--and possibly scared it away, instead of ending up with this.

I started to head out to the other side of the park...when a large insect floated onto the branch above my head. 

This poor thing--called a crane fly--is thought of as a mosquito on steroids, but it does not bite, cannot harm humans, and in fact, lives only 10 to 15 days.

So when I saw it had made the special effort to lift up from pond reeds to the tree branch to get my attention to be drawn too--well, I just couldn't say no. I stood there under the tree branch with my brush pens sketching until my picture was finished--people walking through the park couldn't see the insect so didn't know what I could possibly be interested in...a tree?

I'd started out the day thinking, "Camera died; no pictures today." But I went home with two!

MOSQUITOS TOO--REALLY?

"His Eye is on the Sparrow, and even the Fly...but a MOSQUITO?"...and You want me to sketch it?!

When I went to the park Sat., a crane fly--an insect that looks like a giant mosquito--came up to me and posed for a drawing. Those things don't bite and have very short life spans once they reach maturity, so I'd become a little sympathetic towards them--altho' I detest mosquitos. But when I tried to do the actual sketch, nothing worked. It was one of those days, I guessed.

The next day, I noticed a black speck above the bed...not a crane fly, but an actual Mosquito!

"I sketch you; you don't bite me tonight; deal?" It made no promises but stayed still while I took photos then displayed it on the laptop screen to use fineliner and brushtip pens to draw it. Some human races lean more towards art while others see it as impractical. It's the same with insects: most butterflies, dragonflies, and bees seem to want to be drawn, but in the past, mosquitos don't care much about it. I wondered how this one would be.

His eye is on the weakest ones...but the Oppressors too, and He wants us to pray for their blessing?!