Easter Weekend 2014

Finding Faith in a Flower

Sometimes when faith is running low

And I cannot fathom why things are so

I walk alone among the flowers I grow

And learn the answers to all I would know

For among my flowers I have come to see

Life's miracle and its mystery

And standing in silence and reverie

My faith comes flooding back to me!

(Helen Steiner Rice) 



p.s. thankyou for your comments - I used this  same verse last Easter,
it's special for me and I'm glad it has touched others too. 
For me, my walks in the woods are my worship and
the things I see there are constant reminders of
the gifts of Life and Grace

Gods Creatures (on the allotment)

This little fox was sunbathing on the allotments, watching the crows picking around for anything edible, he will make a good scarecrow even though he is old and slow.    He reminded me of one of my favourite childhood stories, Aesops Fables, The Fox and the Crow, so I had the book from the library this week.  The fox tricks the old crow into dropping cheese from his mouth by flattering the crow about his singing ...he asks crow to sing - the cheese drops and the fox wins the cheese!

(picture, Google Images)

I always loved these stories as a child because I was asked to guess 'the moral of the story' at the end.

These two animals are often disliked by us as they steal and scavenge, there are chickens on our allotments barricaded in like the crown jewels so the old fox can't get them and everyone's little seedlings are festooned with netting to keep the crow away, but they are only trying to survive.  It's harder to think of something good about the crow, but I have - I take the nasty bugs and put them on a fence post and the crows take them away for me!


I have been reading through Psalms in the Bible that tell us animals as well as people are to praise God, that animals are important to Him and are very much part of His plan, that we should share our worship of God with animals.

In Daniel I found this:

All you birds of the air, bless the Lord....
All you beasts, wild and tame, bless the Lord

I will look at foxes and crows in a new light now, Gods creatures great and small, there's room for us all.
This was my pause for thought during Lent, for more posts visit Floss who has a list of other participants to visit.