A Tree Pie looking at me intently; two Magpie Robins with one having food in its mouth; a pair of Sunbirds, and a Bee Eater, were the visitors in our garden yesterday evening!
I returned to work after three weeks of being at home to attend to some pressing repairs to the compound wall, the irrigation pond, and finding a substitute for our earlier domestic helper to work in the garden.
It was refreshing to return to work and get connected with colleagues who made good progress in planning for developing a few new facilities for accompanying children and families, who visit us.
What an experience it was to meet with a family with their child of seven months with visual impairment, another family of visually impaired mother fondly involved in taking care of their infant, another toddler who is in his driven journey to fulfil all his aspirations insistently, with which the parents cannot cope....
Yes, the world of families and children awaken me to new realities.
During the mid day, the chairman of a popular school came with a list of children between three and five years in his school needing attention for their learning and behaviour needs!
It was at the end of such a day, I watched these sights of birds, each giving a message of closure of a day with enduring hope.
A friendly Tree Pie, a family of Magpie Robins returning to their nest to feed the little one, the sunbirds tunefully singing and the Bee Eater restfully singing its song... I wish I was able to get sharper pictures although the light was fading!
The nature is in its rhythm reminded me, that the day is over and the labour of the day now would get consumed in the rest of the night.
The day is for labouring and the night is for entering in to rest !
This rest is also communion with God of our lives because it is in God we rest!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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