Satan speaking to God:
“Haven’t you put a hedge of protection around Job, his household, and everything he owns? You, God, have blessed the work he has done with his hands.”
Then God said to Satan: “Everything he has is in your power, Satan, except don’t kill Job.”
Satan is soon ‘behind’ the hedge, destroying livestock, his children, and his wife encourages him to curse God. Friends come with unkind logic. Job has done something secretive and evil to deserve this, they say. He scrapes his skin where puss bubbles out. He will not leave His God. Instead, he chooses to pray for his mocking friends (Job 42:10), and that is when God restores everything in abundance.
Job 1: 10,11 (Sandy’s summary of the story.)
Hedges
All for privacy, this copper beech hedge will keep its colour till spring when green leaves return.
Then, one newly, carefully woven hedge with consideration for the roots. All living but not green. Not yet, that is.
A third, the highest hedge.
Unexpectedly, we stop. A mature Red Kite flies in to snatch a rabbit. We disturb it . I get out and wait and wait. It doesn’t return. So here is a borrowed photograph of this large winged bird and where I stood to see the return. I thought I waa hidden by the low branches of an ever green tree.
Not a hedge but water lying by the side of the road is what we see next with a fascinating tree I videod on the right side of the road.
A few of the fields also had water that hadn’t drained away.
Here are two jokes:
A guy is going around town stealing gates from homes. No one wants to confront him. In case he takes a fence.
Did you know that if you garden in your back garden naked, your neighbours will build a privacy fence for absolutely no cost to you. (Funny this, when we shared a fence with number 2, our naturalist neighbours number 3 built a privacy fence.)
Both are unknown to me.
I hope you have a restful time this weekend.
Take care.
Sandy🙂
PS
While letting this post travel, I enjoyed listening to Robert Frost read his poem Mending Wall. Press on the title if you would like to as well.
Fascinating tree! I love to look at the tree bark Sandy. Well spotted.
Thank you! Need to learn to identify trees from their bark!
I love where your travels take you. Excellent connections; very thought-provoking.
I’m so glad you have taken a while to be with us.
You have amazing hedges there in the UK I heard some of them are hundreds of years old and animals live in them. Wonderful.
I enjoyed listening to Robert Frost!
Yes, the hedges here are considered very special, with replanting expected if one is removed. I’m so glad you enjoyed the poem. A treat to hear the voice of the poet.
Love those hedges! That is a stunning bird, the Red Kite. 🙂
The Red Kites were reintroduced and are thriving. Some people are even complaining about their numbers.
Too many, and chickens and birds begin disappearing, uh-oh.
Yes, those are the problems!!!