Faith

Every morning recently I have spent some time watching a beautiful and colorful Marbled orb-weaving spider (Araneus marmoreus) which has been making her web near my front porch. She makes her web shortly after dawn each morning, attaching a single signal strand to the center of the web. She then retreats to some folded up leaves to hide for the day, patiently waiting for flying insects to be captured by her web. She keeps contact with the web through the signal strand in order to detect any captured insect. She is a good metaphor for me since she regularly puts a large amount of effort in order to make her web, having no idea what the outcome will be that day. She simply acts according to her nature, trusting in the outcome.