Photo today is by Willfried Wende from Pixabay

These young blackbirds wait patiently for their food to arrive

Thought For The Week

‘Now I am revealing new things to you, things hidden and unknown to you, created just now. This very moment you have heard nothing of these things until now, so that you cannot say, ‘Oh yes, I knew all this’. ~Isaiah 48:6

We sometimes think of God, religion and spirituality as just static. Some see it as created in the past which has been passed onto us to preserve and in turn we pass it on to someone else. This is very limiting. Everything about God is fresh, moving and changing. Nothing stays still. Even the prophet Isaiah who wrote many thousands of years ago, had a lovely sense of everything evolving and changing.

This month of May is an example of how everything in nature is changing. Everything is now bursting with life, colour and energy. Our gardens are equally bursting with life and colour. It is a month of expansion and growth.

The same goes with God who is never static. We can never say we know God fully or know with certainty the answers to our deepest questions. Each day we can learn something new about ourselves, about God, about life, about the world we live in, about our family, our friends and so on.

All of them are never in isolation but are connected in a mysterious web that make up today. If we believe that today is God’s gift to us then we are open to possibility, freshness and a sense of freedom in our lives. That’s why today is always precious and a day to make the most of, as best we can.