Lacey Green – Sabbath 5 mile circular walk

Jesus spoke these words during the Sermon on the Mount:

‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’

Why say this and how would we know?

Jesus then gives an explanation:

‘ You will know them by their fruits.’ Matthew 7: 15, 16 is where the above words are found.

What are fruits?

Actual actions, life style, character and whether their teachings align with truth rather than personal gain.

Which truth?

‘ Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God…’ 1 John 4: 1-3 this is the first part. Read it in full if you like.

Paul then says: ‘ Prove all things, hold tightly onto what is good and stay away from all appearances of evil… Faithful is God who called you and He will do it.’

1 Thessalonians 5: 19- 24 ( The whole is significant but I have taken out only parts.)

Then here is a joke on a sign as we start our experience of this area of the Chiltern Hills.

Dangerous Sheep in Field

Please Protect your dogs and keep them on the lead.

We are walking through five miles of rolling farmland, scenic beechwoods and mostly on local footpaths. We will also pass Lacey Green Windmill.

Here are my photographs from yesterday as it is raining this morning and I am really pleased we had sunshine yesterday.

Rolling farmland

The Chiltern Hills are made of chalk because the region was once submerged by a warm,shallow, subtropical sea. Microscopic algae, occolithophores lived and died in this ancient sea, their tiny bodies/ shell plates accumulated onto the seabed. Tectonic movements compressed and pushed this soft white limestone upward and weather and erosion sculpted it into soft rolling hills and steep northwestern escarpments we experience today.

Scenic beech woods

Beech trees thrive here because their root systems flourish in the well- drained alkaline soils produced by the underlying chalk geology.

The trees were used for a massive furniture making industry in the 18th and 19th century centered around the nearby High Wycombe area.

The Lacey Green Windmill

We are in the county of Buckinghamshire , south-east of Princes Risborough and this windmill is the oldest surviving smock mill in England dated by a leading authority to be from 1650 and restored in 1970. The name smock is used because it resembled the smocks worn by farmers in an earlier period.

Its black sloping weather boarded sides with a cap that rotates the sails into the wind makes for a foreground holding an infinite changing sky. Look.

The paths

It is easy to see the white of the chalk and easy to walk with the right shoes even when wet, but most of all it is easy to notice the green coming through the yellow of our heat waves. All easy on the eye.

A beautiful long afternoon of walking with friends.

I hope you were with us for a while.

Take care,

Sandy 🙂