Today has been a frustrating day; tried to do a lot but it feels as though I have done nothing and I am now short of time. The one thing I did do was meet up with Kina, my gaffer as vicar, although I doubt she sees herself like that. We periodically meet to exchange thoughts and report on what we are doing. At the end of the meeting, she told me that, as we prayed, she had a vision of a bumblebee. The bumblebee is small and individually insignificant. It is a fragile insect, but actually part of a much greater whole, the nest. As an individual, it simply does the little it can, oblivious of the greater whole. But without individual bumblebees doing their bit, the nest would fail. And without nests of bumblebees, our crops would fail as they are some of the main pollinators. Kina did not know that one of my sins of omission was that I had not written this article today; I was not sure what to write about. But I do now….
Rev David Poyner