Bee Blessed

My friend ended his email with the words “Be blessed, be a blessing”. Still thinking about the importance of this week, I realised that I am truly bee-blessed.

• I light candles at the dinner table, 
• and the furniture gleams because of the polish I’ve used on that table. 
• I waxed some thread before sewing the buttons back on my winter coat
• I spread honey on my toast. 
• And the glowing red apples in my fruit bowl only grew because a bee pollinated the blossom on the tree.

So I wrote a prayer about being bee-blessed

Father God, 

you made these tiny creatures, as part of your wonderful creation, 

and they are a blessing to me, 

and we need them if humans are to survive on our planet. 

Scientists have studied their colonies 

and are still learning more about them 

• the way they serve their queen, 
• the way they work in the hive, 
• their construction of the beautiful hexagonal waxen cells, 
• all the properties of their honey to nourish and to heal, 
• their amazing flying dances which tell other bees where to find the nectar,

Help me to learn from the bees – 

• to serve you, my King, 
• to work alongside my brothers and sisters, 
• to build your Kingdom, 
• to feed the hungry, 
• and to help others to find your love.

As I am bee-blessed, so may I be a blessing

©AngelaAlmond2018