Bee Happy

On another visit to our favorite apple orchard a few years ago, I was enjoying a chat with Mrs. W. while browsing her charming antique store.  It's a small converted house, and she has furniture and treasures artfully tucked into every corner.  She  mentioned that their crop had been small that year because of a Spring frost, and that the frost had occurred two years in a row on exactly the same date.  I could tell she was concerned - - this was their livelihood, and I promised to pray for them.

When that date approached the following year, I began praying - determined that there wasn't going to be a crop-destroying frost.  Part of my prayer was that the harvest would be the BEST they'd ever had.

That Fall, on our annual pilgrimage to the orchards, I asked about the harvest.    "Oh, it was the BEST we've ever had.  No one else in the valley had a crop like ours."   I'm smiling.  "So, what do you think made the difference?", I asked.

"It was the bees.  We had thousands of bees."

Now isn't that just like God.



He that diligently seeks good, finds favor   Proverbs 11:27

 

Here's a little friend that sits on the breakfast room shelf.

He's a News Bee (:

 

near the vintage mustache cup that says "Be happy"

on a book about bees

 

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