This is one of our favourite spring walks, a private wood with permissive paths. There are lots of fallen trees and one day we were in the wood in high winds and there was so much creaking we decided to get out quickly! There were plenty of fallen trees to suggest that might be wise!
We usually climb over this tree but it does get me wondering how we tell whether a blocked path is an indication to turn back or a challenge to climb over – if we have the capacity to do that. I do keep returning to the theme of discernment in my blogs and seek to recognise the moves of the Holy Spirit within me while recognising that often it is our choice what we do in such a situation. Where is the Holy Spirit leading you today?
Marker Posts and Shelters 
SCCM chorus: Love of Jesus is so wonderful; so wide you cant run around it, so low you cant get under it, so high you cant get over it o wonderful love! Versus Jungle Doctor Stories. A wall appeared in the jungle. The hyena offered to run round it but returned exhausted. The monkey offered to climb over it but couldnt get high enough. The (digging animal childhood memory) dug but couldnt get under it. What was it? Sin of course; Jesus broke the barrier down . Always reminded of these when a tree falls in our wood and the public work all sorts of ways round, over, under . Until the council or others arrive with a chain saw and cut through. Philip Tyers [cid:image001.png@01DA997A.4069DB30]
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I sang that song too!
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