Love brings you Home

Good Morning
This time of year when neighbours go on holidays and maybe you’ve been asked to look after the neighbour’s animals: a few years ago, we were tasked to feed our neighbour’s chickens and let them run in the back garden:

The first day my husband went over, he came running for help – he couldn’t get the chickens back in their coop!
The second day though he had a plan:
He thought: if I move the feeder to the back of the chicken coop – when I put the feed in – the chickens will come running in and I will have time to lock them safely inside the coop:
Or so he thought!

The first half was executed effortlessly – the feeder was pushed right to the back – but those pesky chickens knew the kind of psychological game they were engaged in –
they nuzzled up to the coop and nudged the door shut trapping my husband inside!

Half an hour later I was wondering why he had not returned – I felt something wasn’t right so our eldest son went over to check on Dad and the two came back liberated:
Love brings you home: In Charlie Mackesy’s book: the boy, the mole the fox and the horse the boy says: Sometimes I feel lost – Me too – said the mole – but we love you – and love brings you home’.

As you start this day, and quickly get lost going many directions, remember the Father loves you and through Jesus, love brings you home:
May you be opened to receive God’s perfect, unconditional love today: May you encounter the God who created you and knows you: In your own needy places may you learn how to be in communion with the vulnerable ones around you. And may God’s love bring you home, Amen.