They were familiar with the creatures who visited during the day but wondered who visited in the dark of night, so they installed wildlife cameras to record the nocturnal visitors.
Their garden is a busy place while they are sleeping. Lots of possums, including a baby on its mother’s back, fruit bats visit when the banksias are in flower, there’s even rats that get stalked by the neighbour’s cat.
Even where my daughter and I live, on three and a half acres on the way to Echuca, we get night-time visitors.
Sometimes I put the back verandah light on after I have heard a noise and often there will be a possum on the lawn.
If I stay quiet they will keep on munching whatever they have in their paws until they run off up a tree.
We much prefer to see them on the lawn or in the trees than hear them in the roof. We have a lot of gum and pine trees and it’s a joy to hear the kookaburras and magpies and other birds who have made our garden their home and safe haven.
We have pigeons, sparrows and willy wagtails, which sometimes hitch a ride on a sheep’s back.
The grass parrots are nearly always in their pairs, the dull brown of the female seems to look insignificant against the bright plumage of the male.
I sometimes wonder what we might be surprised to see if we had a wildlife camera.
The writer of this story says the camera reminds him of God; His eyes and ears miss absolutely nothing, even when we are sleeping God is watching over us all, His people and all His creatures are precious to Him.
Psalm 34 verse 15 tells us: “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their cries.”
God doesn’t sleep like we do, He is always watching over us. Matthew 6 verse 26 speaks about God’s care for the birds as an example to show how He provides for humanity.
It says: “Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store any food in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
This verse shows that the Heavenly Father provides all their needs and He provides for us as well.
We are of more value than birds, so shouldn’t we trust that God will provide what we need and that we need not worry?
We should be reassured that God, our Heavenly Father, who cares for the smallest of creatures, will care for us, His people made in His image.
Let’s rest in that care and His immeasurable love and just trust Him for what we need.
Rosemary Hunt
Kyabram Baptist Church
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