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JENNY'S CORNER - SUSSEX DOWNS
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September 1999
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| The corn has been safely gathered in and now smaller
tractors and attachments have criss-crossed the fields gobbling up the
stubble and regurgitating it in fascinatingly round plastic bound lots.
Vesta's first reaction to these giant intruders was to growl and
bark until she realised they did not move.
It has been a wonderful summer which seems to be extending into
September.
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Vesta adores to roll in the short stubble and scratch her back.
Peachie has to have daily ear inspections to avoid grass seed
penetrating her absurdly long and fluffy ears.
Not really a dog bred
for the fields (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) but who nevertheless
adores them even if when wet it means a half bath to remove the mud
from her trailing fur and fluffy feet!
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Are we bred for this world - or are we encumbered with an impossible amount
of human failings and faults? Do we blame our circumstances on our environment,
our parents, our spouses, our children, a capricious Creator? If one can
stop still and allow the immensity of creation to enter our souls in the
quiet, all these self doubts or angry fears will be answered. No-one can do
it for us. It has to come from within each individual. But we do have an
example, teaching and a power source to help us achieve our mission in
life - that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay:
for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
(Isaiah 29 vv.16-17)
