Children

One day a nun from the Abbey was driving home. It was a
warm day and in the middle of the road she saw a lizard
sun-baking. She pulled over and saw that, thankfully, it was
still alive - it hadn’t been run over. She knew if it stayed there
it would get squashed so she got a stick and tried to shoo it
over to the paddock by the side of the road. But it didn’t want
to go! Another car came by and slowed down. The lady in the
car said, “Are you ok?” and the nun said, “Yes, I’m trying to
get him off the road!” The lady smiled. “Good on you!” she
said, “But don’t let him bite you!”
The lizard had very hard scales and a stubby little tail, and as
the lady drove away, he kept turning and opening his mouth to
reveal a triangular blue tongue! Sometimes he hissed too.
Strangely, a couple of cyclists came by and stopped, taking
photos of the lizard. And then a man in a small truck stopped
and got out. He was wearing an OM around his neck, and said
that he saved a lot of lizards all the time. He picked up the
shingle-backed skink and the cyclists took more photos!
Finally, the man put the skink safely in the paddock and
everyone said goodbye and thanks!!! As the nun left, she
wondered if the skink was an emanation of the Buddha,
bringing all these people together to do such a good thing -
help to save a life!!! ....What do you think?