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“Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock.”
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THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH: LOOK UP
A friend of mine once chided me for spending too much time working and studying. ‘You must take time away from your books and computer and look up at the wonderful things around you.’
I tried to follow her advice but often the pressures of work took over and I found I had less and less time to ‘stand and stare’ as the poet W.H. Davies wrote in his poem ‘Leisure.’ The beauty of nature was always there but too often I managed just a quick glance before returning to my work.
Now I’m retired I have no need to focus on looking down. Consequently, I have more time to ‘look up’ but ironically, because of mobility issues, I need to keep my eyes firmly on the ground when I’m out walking. Uneven pavements and pathways have an annoying habit of tripping me up when I least expect it so I need to keep my eyes on the hidden dangers before they catch me out!
Yet there is time to ‘look up’ when seated on a bench or just standing for a moment. It was during one of those moments, when we were on holiday in Scotland, that I looked up at the clouds and watched their changing formation above the mountain tops. Nearby a stream was gushing down the hillside and the sun was beginning to sink lower in the sky. In that moment I was reminded of a childhood hymn.
‘All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The LORD God that made them all.
The purple headed mountains, The rivers running by, The sunset and the morning, That brightens up the sky.’
Despite the ugliness of ‘man’s inhumanity to man,’ which we can see in the countless cruel and heartless terrorist attacks, wars and lack of pity and compassion for others, nevertheless we have only to look up at the beauty of the natural world to see beyond the ugliness.
The natural world, originally created by God, is beautiful and we were given the responsibility to care for it. But we need help to guide us on how to live peacefully together in this beautiful world and we can find this in the Bible.
‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help!
My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth’
(Psalm 121 v 1 – 2).