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<\/p>\nI just love Moose Tracks ice cream. For some reason, I just really like the little peanut butter cups that give a sweet and chocolatey taste to the mainly vanilla ice cream. I get chided a lot for ordering it every time we stop for ice cream, but I like it\u2026 So, I feel a close affinity with the moose\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
One evening we were watching a program on television that involved a man who did long term studies on animals. For this program the man was following a moose and her newborn calf. He had an amazing ability in following different animals and being accepted by them. His tales are extremely interesting and very well done.<\/p>\n
He took us through an entire year of following this mother with her calf. She taught her to stand and walk and forage for food. She modeled appropriate behavior and how to get the salt rich plants from the bottom of the ponds. These plants are essential for the moose survival. They avoided attack by wolves and other predators, but when the man finally came upon them in the spring, he witnessed the mother, who was expecting a new calf, sending the year old female away. This young female seemed bewildered at the actions of the mother. Her eyes looked somewhat startled at being shunned and ostracized by her maternal partner. She didn\u2019t know what was happening and it was very apparent. She kept trying to come back and nuzzle with the mother moose only to be rejected and sent away again. The scene really sent a hurtful feeling to my heart\u2026
\nHave you ever felt abandoned by a friend or someone you thought loved you?<\/p>\n
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Did you try and try to find out what you had done\u2026 to no avail\u2026 walking away bewildered and hurt\u2026 the individual(s) whom you had supported and loved and thought that they loved you\u2026 suddenly, you were no longer welcome\u2026 Did your eyes look startled like the young moose? Did your heart ache? Was there any logical explanation? Was there any way to heal the pain?<\/p>\n
Seeing this moose being ostracized by her mother, was painful \u2026 But even in those times of abandonment and\/or rejection, there is a positive side\u2026 for the year old moose calf, this is the way of the wild and the species. Moose are actually very solitary. This yearling moose was now old enough to have its own calf and to teach the next generation as her mother had taught her. It is according to the laws of nature. In much the same way, when we may feel ostracized or abandoned\u2026 God likely has another plan for us\u2026 a path to our destiny that can\u2019t be achieved without this separation. A new tribe to be found and new community to prosper within\u2026<\/p>\n
Without doubt, we\u2019re all being called to release the old ways of being in the world that no longer sustain us, and enter unknown territory. We\u2019ll do so because we recognize that it\u2019s no longer possible to find our security in the outer forms we\u2019ve been conditioned to trust\u2026Colette Baron Reid<\/em><\/p>\n There is a saying, \u2018rejection is God\u2019s protection\u2019\u2026 So, we shan\u2019t be too quick to stay sorrowful\u2026 rather it is a moment to look for new opportunities of spiritual growth and guidance from our Higher Power.<\/p>\n Be brave\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just love Moose Tracks ice cream. For some reason, I just really like the little peanut butter cups that give a sweet and chocolatey taste to the mainly vanilla ice cream. I get chided a lot for ordering it every time we stop for ice cream, but I like it\u2026 So, I feel a … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-resilient-children","category-child-development-awareness","category-education-insights","category-lifelong-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}