This is another “ant trail” that is a little off the verse-by-verse study of the Song, but I want to share something really cool that I saw. For those who know, I live next door to my Mom, and she has (which came with her house) a lot of flower gardens that need tending. I have to admit that I’m not doing very well at keeping the chaos at bay. (and neither is she) :/
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One day I noticed a bush with dozens of round fuchsia-tinged blooms.  At first I was amazed they would ever open to be a flower, as they were so tightly wadded up. Then I saw them crawling with black ants, and wondered. Either it was an infestation, or there was something symbiotic between the ants and the buds.
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Later I looked it up, and found out that it was a peony bush, and the ants in fact do appear to have some importance to the flowers!  The ants are after the sweet nectar on the immature blooms.  It is believed that the nectar sometimes runs so thick that it prevents the blooms from opening, and the ants are helping to open them by licking the nectar!

Being busy, doing nothing

Nature abounds with so many parables. Like the bees that pollinate because they love nectar, so too these ants remind us that the work of the Kingdom is accomplished in doing what we love to do out of the indwelling life of the Lord Jesus inside us. The striving and pursuit of ‘being used of God’ that is so tormenting in the young believer (and put on as guilt trip in the religious system) is not natural to the Intimate Kingdom of Christ, anymore than sweating and tilling the soil is natural to the Garden of Eden. The ants weren’t consciously thinking about, or trying to open the blooms. They simply love the nectar, and beautiful things happen!
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One of my favorite quotes by a friend is, “The hardest thing you will ever do is nothing,” and I know this to be so true. It may look like foolishness to live free of concern and trust the Lord for our daily and future needs. It may look like a waste of time spending most our time sitting at the feet of Jesus, intimately relating to Him and with those He now dwells in. However there is nothing more desirable to the Lord, and useful to the world, than to dwell in this place of child-like first-love and freedom. We can count on it.  Actively choosing to love Him and seek first His Kingdom will ‘naturally’ open the budding hearts of all who desire His eternal romance.
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So let’s get busy doing nothing! :)

In Love,
Pamela.

“Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful of women?” asked the young virgins, “We wish to seek him with you.”

The Shulamite answered, “Follow me. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of balsam, to pasture his flock in the gardens and gather lilies there. For I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.”   From Song 6:1-3.