The Real Deal.

I was called out today to go and pray for a lady that suffers from aggressive Leukemia and look what was waiting for me outside! A huge Grasshopper of the family "Acrididae"!
In my post yesterday, I showed you a bird that caught a locust and amazingly this one appeared today in the city center. So I put him into a bag and brought him home to release him back into nature.
But this guy harbors a colorful secret when he flies!
Let me show you!

This is where I found him.

And this is his secret! I set him free and he flew away for a short distance, this was his first landing.

He set off on a walk with his wings still open.

This was my final shot before he took off and disappeared.

Isn't this amazing as I haven't seen a big one in a long time?
Yesterday I posted about grasshoppers and locusts and today I ran into one of all things. Now, I could have kept him in an airtight container and I could have waited for him to die, before I pinned him onto a board to hang on the wall here in my study. But why would I do a silly thing like that?

The sad thing is that we as humans want to keep anything cute that our eyes see. I have seen people drool over small and cute puppies, but then the pups grow up and they are banished to a backyard and ignored. I sat on a couch in a person's house and sadness and anger at all of the animal heads that were mounted on the walls. Trophies to show what a brave and great hunter he is. What is brave and great about standing behind a rifle and killing an innocent animal, usually over a long distance!

We are to manage this earth, but instead we are killing it! Lions are bred and slaughtered in inhumane conditions, as there is a great demand for lion bones in Asia. Elephants are slaughtered to such a great effect that they have become extinct in some African countries! And oh, the poor rhinos getting killed off for their horns by the hundreds, simply because their horns are grinded into a powder and sold by the gran as an expensive medicine. A horn that consists of hardened rhino hair!

My apologies as I can go on and on about the sacred subject of all life, but I can tell you that if we don't revise our ways, then earth will soon be without a large contingent of it's animals. Google the impending disappearance of the "Pangolin" (Ant Eater) in Africa, due to poaching, the "Giant Anteater is also on the endangered list. Not only that, but what about small monkeys being plucked from the wild to be sold at city traffic lights!
Think about it!

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