The heavy woodpecker clung to a bendy twig on the larch
tree. He clung upside down, determined to get something good from the pine cone
above his head. It was like watching someone do stomach crunches or sit-ups.
Up, down, up, down.
Turns out I wasn’t the only one watching him. When he had
eventually loosened the pine cone enough for it to come away in his beak, he
flitted to the fence post top, laid it down and started to peck at it once
again. But not for long. A bigger bird swooped at him, the cone fell to the
ground, and both birds flitted to a neighbouring tree.
Neither benefited from the breakfast one had worked so hard
to get.
Paul wrote that we should each look out not just for
ourselves, but for each other, too. We were made to help one another. Then we
are all fed. Then we all prosper.
Kindness and generosity of spirit: aiming for those traits
today.
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