Armageddon had broken out inside my head and I was reeling and rocking from it's onslaught. I tried aspirin--it didn't work. I laid down and played soft, caressing music--DIDN'T'T work. And when the fighting became more fierce...I decided to go to the nearest emergency room to find out just what was ailing me.

The short bus ride was a white blur of maddening discomfort from the pain throbbing inside my head. Finally, I reached my destination--the hospital--and upon signing the patient log, I was informed that I was WAY back in the pecking order.

I grumpily took my seat beside a big display window in the E.R. waiting room. To say I was "teed-off" was putting it very lightly, indeed.

As boredom set in, I started thinking about personal business I needed to take care of--trying to hurry the footsteps of time--but the pain kept reminding me of what I was there for.

Just then,....My eyes fell upon a honey bee fluttering over a flower box under the very window where I was seated. It flitered, in and out, oblivious to the me and every thing around it, as it gathered pollen.

I smiled. "Boy", I thought, "GOD is a wonder."

Here it is, we humans, think that the earth and OUR lives are the only things that matter in life's grand scheme....and here was a tiny insect lost in it's OWN world and OWN universe. A world within a world.

And what a world it is. It has it's own natural way of co-existing with man, peacefully. It's own rites of passage. It mates and has offspring. It has life--and a determined time to die. It has hierarchy in place--and exists within it's own natural community.

And it does all this among the hustle and bustle of OUR world. What, with our cars that pollute the air, planes that roar overhead, space ships that journey to outer space....I guess, to it, WE are the pests.

Then, suddenly, I remembered--awhile back--where I had read that scientists--playing GOD, again--where introducing certain synthetic elements into flower cells altering their original genetic structure. The reasoning, they said, was to IMPROVE the flowers use to man.

As I watched the bee going on with it's work, I started to wonder just what would be the consequences of this silly tampering to the the insect and horticultural world.

Would it kill certain species? Also, would these new brand of  "franken"--flowers cause genetic changes in the anatomic structure of the insects, themselves? I mean, how can you IMPROVE upon nature --which is GOD'S creation?

Knowing some natural flowers depend on insects or the wind to procreate,....would this create new SUPER breeds? We've all seen those old science-fiction movies....

What WOULD be the effects of introducing man-made hybrid strains into cross--pollination? And could this be positive or negative to horticulture?

Would this be a great catastrophe to nature it self?...Or was I just over-reacting?

The bee, uncaring, and on it's own mission of survival, continued on it's task....."As busy as a BEE".

I was then awakened from my thoughts by the sound of my name being called by the E.R. receptionist.  As I walked up to the counter, I became acutely aware that my headache had gone. A truce had finally been reached, ending Armageddon.

I reached the counter and the receptionist said, "Would you like to see a doctor?" I smiled and looked her squarely in the face and answered, "Naw, not today."

The look of extreme puzzlement crossed her face as I spun around and walked through the double doors, back out into the multi-world.

P.S. It is Our job to take care of the environment. HE gave ADAM dominion over the fullness of the Earth--please, don't destroy it's beauty.