Today, I noticed a leaf moving.
Then, just behind it, a tiny piece of fruit.
I stopped—captivated.
As I looked closer, I realized it wasn’t the leaf or the fruit moving on their own.
It was a small ant—steady, determined—moving in perfect rhythm with others.
I found myself smiling. Do ants have peers? I wondered.
And almost instantly, a quiet answer stirred within me:
“Not peers—counterparts.”
I knew that voice came from my heart, because I didn’t question it.
Later, my mind tried to argue, but my eyes silenced the debate.
I watched as one ant carrying nothing bumped gently into another carrying a heavy load.
There was no fight, no delay—only a pause, a small backing up, and a graceful step aside.
Each continued on its way, faithful to its task.
I stood in awe as they moved in two steady lines, one coming, one going—
each ant knowing exactly what to do.
No confusion. No competition. Just purpose.
Each one carrying a weight ten, twenty, even fifty times its own size.
Each one doing what it was created to do.
Then the lesson came:
“You have a purpose too.”
I felt the words as much as I heard them.
“My children are designed just as carefully,” the whisper continued.
“I have a plan for each of their lives—unique, intentional, powerful.
Just as these ants move in unity and purpose,
so have I called my children to carry, to follow, to lead, to love, to build, to go.”
And then—soft but certain—came the final reminder:
“I am the Way.
I am the Purpose.
I am the Power behind all I have created.”
So I ask you—
Do you know the One who gave you purpose?
Do you know your purpose?
The ants do.
