Gulls and Graces

I needed some shopping on my way home, so I turned into

the local Supermarket car park. I approached the Zebra

crossing with the usual caution, checking each side for

pedestrians.  Sure enough, my cautionary instinct paid off,

for two legs had just stepped off the pavement onto the

zebra crossing, to cross to the other side.

The pedestrian calmly looked to the right and left, cautiously

watching for traffic as he crossed the white stripes to the opposite kerb. He strutted across with confident composure and an air of superiority, then reached the kerb, hopped on the pavement, and walked off! I watched, mouth agape.

This was not any ordinary pedestrian. This pedestrian was a cheeky seagull that had the audacity to take advantage of the zebra crossing to cross the road safely in front of my car! I rubbed my eyes in disbelief that I had given way to a seagull, feeling distinctly like a participant in a live cartoon!

Ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. Job 12:7

This beautiful bird was living safely and comically according to the highway code and doing everything right, but it was born to fly! It was created to soar above all the lower-level obstacles such as my car, and not be subject to them.                    Are you living beneath your calling? walking when you should be soaring in the thermals of a higher vocation? Is it time to spread your wings and stop choosing the safe ground level option? You were made for more.                                   With Love,    Rev Gill x                                                                                         We are God’s masterpiece, created in Jesus to do good works. Eph 2:10