Hungry song birds flutter round the feeders, jockeying for
purchase on the wire containers. The feeders swing gently as they land and peck
and quickly give way to the next hungry bird. The woodpecker appears and
quickly commandeers the feeder, which sways wildly for a moment.
It’s relaxing and mesmerising to watch the graceful
creatures alight and take off after only a moment’s pecking. I’d have thought
once a bird landed, it would peck away like mad until it had its fill, but no. A
few pecks usually before they lift off and make way for the next.
Sometimes I sense that I do an awful lot of fluttering
around God’s Word without doing much ‘tasting and seeing’. I peck in and nibble
a morsel perhaps, without really hanging on and getting all the nourishment God
has available to me.
May I learn to lean into and savour the spiritual food God
provides for me, and stop flittering around and flying off to the next task
without properly ‘reading, marking, and inwardly digesting’ the words which
come from the mouth of God.
May the often frenzied activity of my life be tamed so that
I really wait and watch with the Lord, feasting on his word.
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