7th April 2025
“Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.”
Jeremiah 8:7
The birds – indeed all creatures – know intuitively how to live in a harmonious way with the seasons. Because they are in tune with nature, they are also in tune with God. However we humans – just as in Jeremiah’s day – are often not in tune with God; we fail to understand that God wants us to live in tune with nature, with its seasons, its limitations and its joys.
Sadly many people are completely unaware of the changing seasons, because they enclose themselves in an artificial world where you can eat strawberries and avocados all year round, where you rely on heating and air con for a constant T-shirt-wearing temperature, where you seal yourself away from adverse weather in a door to door car service, and where the light from screens not the sun tells you the time of day.
Yet there can be so many opportunities for us to explore the seasons in local parks, nature reserves, in our gardens, via the local farmers’ market, down by a river or by the sea.
The Green Tau 