Privet Flower

A rather ordinary-looking privet bush which grows at the chapel was briefly remarkable the other week. Its plain white flowers, which would not normally attract attention, were alive with bees and butterflies. Whatever they lack to our eye they compensate in nectar if the flying insect community is anything to go by.

Plain food is usually better for us than the fancy stuff; a plate of meat-and-two-veg likely has greater nutritional value than some packet of processed gunk swimming in a chemical sauce. Likewise, plain Bible teaching does more for the soul than artful sophistry and eloquent oratory. It is daily bread we need, not caviar. 

Then He will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth; it will be fat and plentiful. in that day your cattle will feed in large pastures. Isaiah 30:23