The Twitcher grapevine said that a Kingfisher had taken up residence in our small local park, so on Monday Captain Butterfly flew off, a camera at every corner, to see if he could catch it on film. It was elusive, as you can see. But it was definitely there.
I wanted to write a Haiku to welcome it, but all I have managed is this:
O Kingfisher
Poised in park
Stickleback has suitcase packed.
The poet Kobayashi Issa would have done wonders with much the same words, though less of them. And he might have cleverly turned it all round so that, in seeing the Stickleback hurriedly packing its suitcase, you would intuit the Kingfisher.
Here is one of his, and one of my favourite Haiku:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji.
But slowly, slowly.
I am in a lot of pain at the moment. It hurts to move. So if the poet was here watching me hobble painfully around, every snail in town hurtling past me, he might be inspired to write
"O Sue,
Don't try
Climbing Mount Fuji."
Wednesday was a day of Zooming - field service meeting first thing in the morning - siblings later on in the morning - my student and rehearsing our part in the Ministry School in the afternoon, and a Zoom chat with J in the evening.
And to return to the exquisite beauty and engineering of the Kingfisher, I want this blog to honour its Creator, Jehovah, as well as welcome it. As Ecclesiastes 3:11 says of Jehovah: "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish."
Yes. Jehovah has put eternity into our hearts. Seventy and a bit more years is such a short time to spend on this lovely earth, to spend with the people we love. There is so much to see, so much to know, so much to think about, even as things are now. But when the earthly paradise is restored, and our real lives begin... lets hope we are all there to find out.
And we can be. Jehovah is holding out his hands to everyone - inviting everyone.
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