1st March was the beginning of meteorological spring. Spring has certainly started in our garden. Snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils are flowering, birds are more active, newts are surfacing in the pond… I love the rhythm of the seasons.
We’ve had a few days of blue skies and sunshine. Last night I was with friends Steve and Wendy marvelling at the spectacular moon above the sea. I love the rhythm of day and night.
God promised Noah after the flood: ‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.’ God’s natural rhythms will continue. He then confirmed it with a rainbow…
Yesterday we were with friends Tim and Jill at ‘Fairhaven’. The website says: ‘Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden is in the heart of the Norfolk Broads and offers 136 acres of protected natural habitat, dedicated to conservation, education, and wellbeing.’
We often meet there… drink coffee, walk familiar woodland paths, look across the broad, drink tea… Regular sightings of ‘resident kingfishers’ are reported. We’ve been for many years and never seen one. It’s become an ongoing joke. ‘How many shall we see today?’
Chatting away… ‘It’s a kingfisher!’ Tim exclaimed mid-sentence. A flash of blue darted across the water. Tim was right. Kingfishers are no longer an impossible joke.
I’m reading ‘Joshua’. Moses, Israelite leader for forty years, has died. New leader Joshua is told, ‘Be strong and courageous! do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.’
The nation, about to enter their Promised Land, arriving at the banks of the River Jordan. are told that their God will lead them forward: ‘Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.’
The beauty of the predictable moon… the assurance of the rainbow promise… seeing the unexpected impossible kingfisher… crossing my Jordan, they way I’ve not been before… I trust my God who will show me which way to go.
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