First of all, I’d like to thank you for checking out my very first blog post. God bless you abundantly. My thought for today is on one of the many questions I’ve had to ask myself sometimes, especially when I’ve just been hurt by someone close and it is, WHY BE NICE/GOOD? Here’s a story that helps me answer this rhetorical question of mine. THE DOVE AND THE ANT ‘A thirsty ant went to a brook to get a drink. He climbed onto the edge of a blade of grass overhanging the pond, but the surface was too shiny and wet that he lost his balance and fell into the water. A dove sitting in a nearby tree saw the drowning ant decided to help him. He could have decided to eat the ant but yelled at the ant instead heeding him to climb atop a leaf he dropped in the water the ant was about fall into. Plucking the leaf from the tree, the dove fluttered just above the ant and then dropped it. The ant scrambled onto the leaf and floated safely to the stream ...