A few days ago, we scraped together enough snow to make a
snow-woman. Positioned beside the bird-feeder, we tried to give her a
significantly fierce expression, so that the cats would be frightened away and
leave our feathered friends alone. By yesterday, she was shrinking, melting
away and disappearing, and today she is gone.
To be honest, the cats didn’t seem to notice her anyway.
In these early days of 2021, we remember the lesson of 2020:
that all our plans can be overturned overnight. We know that we can just about
make a plan for Today, and perhaps it will come to fruition, but even that
might melt away. Hopefully, we are beginning to hold lightly to our own plans.
‘For I know the plans I have for you, God declares. Plans
for hope and a future.’ As I watched the violent coup-attempt by Trump and his
supporters last week, it took more effort to accept this promise of God for our
immediate future. But as details have emerged and I have seen pictures and
heard accounts of foiled plans for atrocities the rioters hoped to commit, I
have seen the hand of God holding them back.
Doubling down on prayer for our world, fuelled with fresh
evidence of the efficacy of prayer, is my Monday morning resolution. Our world
is in desperate need of God’s healing touch. With his help, I hope that my prayer
plan lasts longer than the snow-woman by the bird table.
Squirrels are straightforward soul to attract and very difficult to rule out. squirrel proof bird feeder in the backyard are the ultimate example of this solution. You want it to melt effortlessly into the landscape, but it must be durable to accommodate various birds.
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