There is an old Danish legend
With a lesson for us all
Of an ambitious spider
and his rise and his fall,
Who wove his sheer web
with intricate care
as it hung suspended
somewhere in mid-air,
then in soft, idle luxury
he feasted each day
on the small, foolish insects
he enticed as his prey,
growing ever more arrogant
and smug all the while
he lived like a "king"
in self-satisfied style
as gazing one day
at the sheer strand suspended,
he said, "I don't need this",
So he recklessly rended
the strand that held
his web in its place
and with sudden swiftness
the web crumpled in space-
and that was the end
of the spider who grew
so arrogantly proud
that he no longer knew
that it was the strand
that reached down from above
like the cord of God's grace
and his infinite love
that links our lives
to the great unknown,
for man cannot live
or exist on his own-
and this old legend
with simplicity told
is a moral as true
as the legend is old-
don't sever the "life lines"
that links you to
THE FATHER IN HEAVEN
who cares for you.
