Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Looking more closely...


We had a quirky little bird as our symbol for the liturgy in church last Sunday. Nobody identified it from the first photo, although it is indigenous to NZ. It looks a lot like many other birds.
But you have to look at it from just the right angle to spot its distinctive feature. It is the only bird that has a beak which curves to the right. The Wrybill Plover circles around stones in a clockwise direction, extracting its food from underneath the edges of the stone and its bill is curved for that purpose.
The stories from Samuel and Nathaniel last Sunday also invited us to look a little deeper, at a different angle, to extract the fullness of their significance for us.
And we realised that our LSM congregations sometimes look pretty much like lots of other small churches. But there is something quite distinctive about them. And it is related to purpose, to our calling to mission, to our very being.

No comments:

Post a Comment