I’m a cave spider
Over the past few months now, i have met the committees running NET and ACMA to talk about how they can build community online and improve their websites in phases. As a culmination of this episode, i got invited to a retreat that NET was organising. I’ve already felt my spider-sense tingling since i wasn’t a committee member and i know only the committee members were invited and not my classmates. So imagine my surprise when i found out at the beginning that this was “business” alignment exercise. As in setting up mission statement and values and brainstorming what the organisation does well and should do more of etc And an even bigger surprise when towards the end of the day an org chart was flashed on screen with a newly created “creative” dept. with web and design as components. I guess i’m in the committee…
And to seal the deal, mass in Church after that had the Gospel of the owner who left his stewards with 5 talents 2 talents and 1 talent and the one with 5 made use of it and got another 5 while the owner was unhappy with the guy that just hid the 1 talent he had in the ground. i.e. moral of story is to use your talents!
The bizarre thing was that the priest then went on to try to explain the parable by telling a story he heard about the Holy family hiding in the cave while on the run from King Herod. In that cave was a little cave spider who felt honored to have distinguished guests and was just trying to do the only thing it could - spin web as an honour for them. This actually saved them from the search party because the soldeirs reckoned that if the entrance was filled with spider web, then logically nobody has entered the cave recently. Thus saving them from being discovered. He ended the explanation of the story along the lines of “…since all the cave spider could do was web-making, then just doing that is honoring God …”
I turned around to V and exclaimed “web making!”
I guess there’s no turning back from this one… I’m reporting for work boss…
I’ll be turning 35 in a couple of minutes and today at Church, i was just thinking, it took me 35 years of learning about and running away from God before finally coming back to believing in Him. So i guess i owe the next 35 to Him to be building His kingdom…














