God Incidence

God rescues birds too

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Most amazing thing happened today at Birdsland Reserve.
I was watching two Spotted Pardalotes dancing in the air and flitting from tree to tree. Then they dive bombed towards the lake, both hitting the water. One flew off but the other couldn’t, it tried really hard and kept moving along, then stopping and panting, then trying again. I was nowhere near it so I couldn’t get a stick or small branch to it, all I could do was watch and hope and pray the bird would get to safety. I was praying so much for God to save the bird but wasn’t at all sure how He would do that, and shaking for the little bird too. Would it survive?
And then suddenly, a Dusky Moorhen turned up (I’d not noticed it before when I was walking along) and it slowly glided towards the tiny, almost submerged bird, then pushed it along towards a stick. I was so thrilled to see this! Wish I’d gotten some really decent shots, but didn’t. I was probably shaking because of my panicking for the little bird. Didn’t have the right settings for a couple of the shots. My glasses fogged up and I moved my camera away from my eyes to clear and then back again, but by then the tiny bird had taken off. whew!
Images are blurred, some are cropped, all are as they were taken. Normally I don’t share shots that aren’t that clear, but these tell a story.
Two Pardalotes
Pardalote stuck in water
Pardalote struggling in the water
Having a break before trying again
Enter the Dusky Moorhen to push the little bird along to a stick. The little bird is almost submerged at this stage.
Pardalote now on a stick having a breather
The hero of the day

God and the Butterfly

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I believe God speaks to us through many things and in many ways. Yesterday a butterfly was the way He touched my husband and me and our young six year old granddaughter. For her sixth birthday we’d told her we’d take her to the zoo and the day finally came to go. The weather wasn’t as good as hoped and we weren’t sure how things would go but we’d promised her, so we went.

The place she wanted to visit, first of all, was the Butterfly House, which is enclosed and kept warm for the butterflies. She had dreams of having a butterfly on her finger and had spoken of it many times. We told her that it might happen but couldn’t promise.

We had to follow a pathway to get there so stopped to look at a few other animals along the way and she was anxious to get there, but eventually we did – or, at least the line up. With current COVID conditions, they limit how many can go inside the Butterfly House at the one time, with face masks on. We waited around 15 mins – less than we were told it might be (up to 40 mins). Once we did get into the area we were advised no touching of butterflies – although you could see many children desperately trying to get one on their finger. I wonder if there’s a story or something they’ve been told at school? I’d love to know. Anyway, we explained to Miss K that it couldn’t happen but if she was lucky one might land on her. And one did, on her hat – a couple of times, but she never got to see that as it was on her head. She took it off, on our suggestion, and then was delighted to see one land. When you see the hat perhaps you can understand why.

 

Very soon we were asked to move on, so that more people could enter the area, so we moved out and then onto a nearby eating area by the elephants, ready to move on with our day, after having lunch. And that’s when the surprise happened. My husband got us some lunch and we sat at a table under shelter. It was a cold day, a bit windy, had been showering now and then. Not really the ideal day for being at the zoo, and definitely not a warm day. As I ate my lunch I looked down at the bag it came in and couldn’t believe my eyes. There sat, a butterfly, very similar to the one that landed on Miss K’s hat in the Butterfly House. Now, we were sure there were none on us when we left the house – we were being careful about that, but here sat a butterfly on our table. How it got there we have no idea. We expected it to fly off, but it didn’t, so took some photos and then eventually let Miss K carefully put her finger close by to see what would happen. It climbed on and stayed still. Then when she moved her finger it moved to her jumper and stayed there. Amazing. Didn’t fly off at all!  We did fully expect it would.

Miss K said we needed to take it back to the Butterfly House but we weren’t sure we could go back in the Exit and didn’t want to line up in a long line at the Entrance. Just as we were discussing what to do, one of the Butterfly Zookeeper staff passed by – he’d been getting his lunch. I called out to him and he came over and I pointed to the butterfly. He then told us that it was too cold for it to fly out here and he’d take it back to the house. So, somehow a butterfly got out of the house, and landed on our table so that Miss K could have her wish. And then the right person turned up at the right time, so it could be taken safely back to where it belonged.  Both my husband and I felt that God had a hand in this and we shared that with Miss K too. She smiled at us, nodding her head and her eyes shining. She’s got a story to tell when she goes back to school in a couple of weeks and the photos to show as well.

 

God just wanted to let me know

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It might be a small thing but what are the odds of this showing up in my Google Reader?

Let me set the scene.

I recently launched my book “Worth More Than Rubies” at Amazon.com. I set up a promotion for a 24 hour period and watched the ranking of my book go from 900,000+ up to 1,127 which was quite exciting. Sales were coming in. I discovered that Amazon has an RSS feed for the top 100 Hot New Releases for my genre, so I subscribed to it, but it only shows 1 book a day from that list of 100.

You know what’s coming don’t you? Overnight, whilst I was asleep, my book reached number 23 but when I saw it 12 hours later on the feed reader it had moved back down again so I would never have been able to witness this or even know it had happened. Why was my book showing instead of someone else’s on the feed reader? Random books are shown every day, in different positions and yet mine was the focus for that particular time the information was posted.

Only God could have orchestrated that for me otherwise I would never have known.

Another God-incidence

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Amazing to be able to look back and see that God has been working on something – even when you haven’t!

I returned home from a business workshop/seminar this morning to find a 10 min old Skype message asking if I was around for a chat about something? I Skyped back to say I’d just got in and shall we chat? And so we did a short time later.

The guy who contacted me outlined a new project he’s working on and that he saw me as someone who could possibly get involved – that he was aware of the things I’d been doing online and where my interests lay.

Now I can’t yet divulge what the project is but as we spoke two things came up that can only be God-incidences.

1. He asked me about doing copy writing for a website he’s working on – I’d just returned from a copywriting workshop! Amazing. I know I can write but learning how to refine it for clients is important and so here I was, not even home a half hour after the course and already my first job lined up!

2. He mentioned the field of possible clients he was looking at for his project (unrelated to number 1 above) and immediately a name of a very well known personality popped into mind. I mentioned who I was thinking of and the caller got real excited as this was exactly the same person he’d been talking with over the past few months. He wanted to know if I knew this person personally and I told him that the PA and I are very good friends and have been on committees together for over 10 years.

So I promised to contact the PA and put in a good word for him. Enter the third thing that happened as a result of this conversation. Turns out the PA (my friend) had been telling her boss (the well known personality) about things I’d been doing online. And then I go and contact her about the very same thing!

Talk about timing. I love when these divine connections happen and you can see God written all over it! I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next.