The picture above is from an advertisement for some kind of interact-with-nature-it’ll-be-fun opportunity. There are similar “opportunities” to stay at a hotel where giraffes will interrupt your breakfast, and so on.
What they never show is the rest of the story. Most animals have no boundaries especially around food and little to no understanding of “Stop! Go away!” So the naive woman in the picture above is going to require an intervention in the not too distant future.
It is so easy to get sucked into the chance of a lifetime, the limited time offer, the cute photo-op but, just like trying to get away from robo-callers and telemarketers, it’s hard to remove yourself once you’ve gone down the path.
How often I let my pride and vanity draw me into lunch with a llama.
The early chapters of Proverbs speak a lot to wisdom and folly, to the enticement of things cheap and easy and, well, a bit risky. We tell ourselves that we can dance with the devil and not pay his dues, we can walk very, very close to the edge of stupid and not go right on over. And we are often wrong. Far better to stay away, stay close to the source of Wisdom, shelter under the banner of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
P.S. Llamas spit. And frequently have guns concealed in their front pockets. And, just like in the picture above, an accomplice.
Just Sayin' 