Lessons from nature

Being interested in nature I spend as much time as I can watching what is happening around me.  After a very hard winter there were fears that many of our native bird populations would be decimated by the cold and lack of food, but I have noticed that the numbers of wrens and nuthatches, for example, are plentiful.   I have noticed also that there are more birds arriving from Africa and nesting here than I have ever known, and also that birds that would normally have returned to the Arctic by now are still here, which is most unusual.  There is abundance everywhere.

While some of this may be explained by climate change, I feel there is more to these new patterns than that.  I can feel the lands around me awakening and a resurgence of old but new energy coming through.  While I feel it specifically here in Wales where I live, there are places throughout the UK, Europe and the world where this is happening similarly and simultaneously.

Nature, which is sensitive, is responding to these blessings.  Its family is not only assembling in these places to augment the energy and for its own good, but is also acting as a messenger for us, alerting us to what is happening and reminding us, in the midst of apparent crises and upheaval, how to be - joyful, appreciative and accepting.