Hummingbirds

I follow Project Hopeful on Facebook and they posted this today and I wanted 


to  share it with those that follow my blog.... The question is..... 


Are you doing all that you can??

One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was suddenly 


engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and 


ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch 


the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all 


bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was 


nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird.

This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the 


stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them 


on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going 


back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief; some 


tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like, "Don't bother, it is too 


much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is too tiny, it’s only a 


drop, you can't put out this fire."


And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts, the bird 


noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted 


out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice, "What do you think you 


are doing?" And the hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked 


back and said, "I am doing what I can."