“Said by the masterful comedian Eddie Izzard, in his set ‘Glorious,’ to describe what a beekeeper must occassionally say when he freaks out and realizes that he is in fact covered in bees. Great line to quote at random times when surrounded by a lot of people.”

Hashtags.org revealed zero tweets with #coveredinbees.  I quickly corrected that twittersphere oversight.

A quick check on search.twitter.com showed that besides a twitter user with the username coveredinbees who is apparently also a fan of @EddieIzzard there are practically no references to this phrase.

Searching FaceBook yielded a few fan groups for the phrase (note that you’ll need to be logged into FaceBook in order for the url to work) but nothing suggesting a huge public trend.

I therefore conclude that my fondness for the phrase has yet to reach pet rock levels of appeal with the social media crowd.  I’ll have to see what I can do to change that.

There lived a man in a village that was suffering a great flood.  Two men rode by his house and stopped, offering him to join them and ride away to safety.  The man declined their offer instead stating “I am unafraid, for the Source will save me.”  The flood continued and the water rose.  Some time later as the man was sitting on the rooftop of his house, two men swam by indicating that he should jump into the water and join them so that they might all swim to safety together.  Still the man refused, repeating that the Source would yet save him.  Finally as he clung to the top of his chimney stack, a man in a boat rowed over to him imploring him to join him and reach safety before it was too late.  For a third time the man refused, insisting that the Source would yet spare his life.  As the water continued to rise, the man was swept away in the torrent and drowned.  Upon reaching the afterlife, the man asked of the Source “Why is it that you did not save me? I have always held faith in you and prayed to you.”  The Source replied “I sent riders, two swimmers, and a boat for you.  What more would you have me do?”

The point of this little story was to illustrate to a friend that losing faith in yourself or your beliefs based upon the fact that the force or power you believed in did not act in the exact way you expected is folly.  Sometimes we only have to look from a different perspective to see all that we have.  I smiled as I read the passage this morning and I thought I’d share it here.  Often when asking for blessings or good luck it is prudent to examine whether such requests have already been fulfilled.