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1-18-14 The Giraffe Club


1-18-14 The Giraffe Club
Years ago some friends and I were sitting around talking waiting for our children to get back from a church outing.  We were discussing how we had been growing and changing in God.  One of my friends got to talking about something she had recently seen.  Somehow it got to why giraffe’s necks are so long and if I remember right some revelation God had shown her.  I don’t remember the particulars, but I do remember that we decided that the three of us were the giraffe club, because God was stretching us.  I think I even made little giraffe pins for us. I don’t know what ever happened to mine.

Recently I’ve been feeling like I’ve lost touch with who I was. 

At Christmas our children’s church gave everyone a Christmas card.  Mine had a picture of 3 giraffes on the front.  All I could do was cry.  I don’t know if it was a reminder of what I felt I lost, or if God was showing me that I still belong to the club.  I like to believe that it was God encouraging me.

After I stopped crying I jotted down some notes of things that came to mind about giraffes:
·         God didn’t just stretch their necks but also their legs.  He made them tall enough to see over and walk over all obstacles put in their path
He gave them :
·         spots to camouflage them (hide them from their enemies)
·         Voices that speak in silence
·         The ability to get their food (substance) from on high

So being the person that I am, that sent me to looking up information about giraffes when I got home.  Some things that jumped out at me from the various information I read are:
·         They are even-toothed which means their weight is borne on their middle toe – what came to mind was that they are sure-footed
·         They are like cows in that they chew their food over again thereby acquiring all the nutrients  –  “rechew” – to ponder, acquiring all the information
·         While not habitually sociable they will travel in groups going in the same direction – help from like minded people
·         Their eyes being on each side of their head give them good all around vision – discernment – seeing all things
·         They see in color – see the beauty of the world
·         Their hearing and smell is sharp – again discernment to be aware of all things
·         They can close their nose to guard against sand storms – keeping out the things that would harm them
·         Their lips and tongue are covered in papillae to protect them against thorns that could be in their food – a way to sift out the bad things people project upon you

Lastly, they truly are stretched.  They are not born with long necks.  Their necks are elongated by disproportionate lengthening of the vertebrae not more vertebrae.

And although they are all spotted and therefore look the same, they are each individual in their coat pattern.

So join the giraffe club with me and let God stretch you to be all you were created to be.
Melissa Going
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