The Simple Things in Life

The simple things in life

The supplies are thinning. You stand in the kitchen. You haven't been anywhere in over two weeks!  You have been heeding the call to stay home. The kitchen curtain blows into your face accompanied by a cool breeze which encircles you. The sound of singing birds sails in on the wind. 

You pause in your deliberations.

When last did you feel the curtain fly into your face? Or hear the sound of birds in the middle of the morning.  It was worth eating 'baked beans' to be reminded of the simple things in life; simple things hitherto blinded by the bustle of work during the week, church things on Sabbaths, and the Sunday hustle to prepare for the recurring bustle.  The ongoing cycle of hurrying from one activity to the next.

Covid forced me to stop and  embrace the simplicity of a walk around the house, fresh air from the back window, a pause  on the limb of the mango tree; it caused me to appreciate the the feel of a curtain flung into my face to facilitate the dance of the breeze around me in the kitchen in the morning (a time hitertho characterised by hustle). In the absence of the radio I listen to the birds.  Not only do they sing, they tell a story; They do not work, yet...not one falls without the heavenly father being aware of it.

Elijah self-quarantined in fear by a brook, and every day a bird brought him food! (! Kings 17)

God's got this.  God's got us...

Be blessed!

6:26-34 New King James Version (NKJV)

26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his [b]stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [c]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.