With the summer setting in earlier than usual time, the marshy fields that remain uncultivated have become dry.
The water birds who thrive feeding on from the pools of water in the marshy field seem to be in a disadvantage.
There are only a few birds unlike two weeks ago when scores of them could be spotted all through the day. The arrivals and departures of these birds were a sight to watch. The way they fly in with outstretched wings floating in the air with no flutter of the wings is a feast to the eyes. Similar when they fly out they soar high within a short distance displacing air with their outstretched wings. Now this sight is occasional during the day.
The next there months would be rather stressful for these birds. Some of them have moved to the banks of the stream beside our property. They wait to see a guppy in the moving water to fetch it with their quick action. There are only occasional misses.
It is when the stream dries up, which usually happens by early May, these birds migrate for a season to other places.
My thoughts go out to the thousands who are vacating their homes to leave Ukraine due to the merciless and arrogant attitude of the Russian government by invading a sovereign country!
What hope is left for them! Their lives are ruined!
There are natural disasters. The human cause for the rest of the disasters is selfishness, desire to control and impose superiority and authority!
We live in difficult times when the memory of the Second World War is distant from our memory!
To live as migrants is a heavy toll to pay!
The pilgrim journey and migrant journey are two diverse experiences.
The pilgrim journey is for moving towards God of our lives.
The migrant journey is through a barren land of despair an anguish! Let us hope that through the migrant journey, many would gain a pilgrim heart to find peace in God!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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