....but it took on a new meaning just recently when I found 2 brown cows in our garden!
I heard the cow bells and they sounded very close...and they were!
How now brown cow?...what are you doing in my garden!
After I got over the surprise and called the management of the expansive property we rent a house on, I thought I should take a photo of the one that was standing right in the middle of one of our garden beds that has some low aloe type plants in it.
And no, they are not supposed to be wandering around the property - somehow they broke through a fence somewhere.
But life isn't boring here, and if there is one thing I learnt from watching those two cows, was to not get perturbed too much with what is going on around me and just take my time, do what I need to, and calmly then move on to the next thing! They would not be hurried by my 'shooing' efforts and acted as if I almost didn't even figure in their field of vision! In fact the one in the photograph stood still for ages, ignoring me, and just picked through the leaves finding little bits of something to eat and chew on!
On the main road not too far from our house is a 'cows crossing' road sign, and when those cows cross (which they often do), they take their time - 'hurry' is not a word in their vocabulary! They just amble across the road at their own speed and all the traffic has to wait for them!
I think 'hurry' is often too much of our lives in this modern world, and we don't take much time to 'slow down' and just calmly go about our tasks.
And even as Christians we can wish 'this or that' would 'hurry up', and I wonder if we stop to think about it, whether we are too easily wanting life to be faster than it needs to be. We want 'fast', 'instant', 'quick', 'immediate', 'without delay', etc etc. I know I can all too easily succumb to this attitude. Subtly we can think 'things' should happen faster and we want to know outcomes, and we can be dissatisfied with the speed God wants us to operate at. We can get impatient with 'slow', 'wait', 'be still'. But if we believe God is ordering our steps, then we actually run a dangerous course when we want 'things' to hurry up, because if we believe God orders our steps, we are actually saying we want God to 'hurry up'....and Scripture has something to say about that in Isaiah 5:18,19 for our caution.
Maybe I need to learn something from the visit of those cows to my garden ..... to be more like that brown cow and be ok about 'going slower' and pause often just to be still and seek out the little morsels of truth God wants to feed my soul on and take time to 'chew' them over for full benefit!
How now brown cow?...thank you for teaching me something by visiting my garden!
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