Hello Girls and Boys,
Have you noticed just
recently how all the trees and hedges have begun to sprout little green leaves
on their branches, and how the birds are busy chitter chattering in their own
chirpy way as they gather twigs and other things to build their nests? Soon
there will be lots of little lambs and other baby animals skipping around the
fields and the woods. It all means, of course, that Spring has
arrived!
There was once a little girl called Lena, who lived in the
country. Every morning, as she made her way to school, she took a short-cut
through a field which was fenced by a hedge of thorns. At some places, she had
to walk close to the thorns, and one day she tripped and fell in among the
thorns scratching her hands. "You nasty, ugly hedge!" she cried, "of what use
can you be? I wish you could be burned down at once."
The next day, Lena
passed the same way again. Just in front of her went a flock of sheep with their
shepherd. Lena noticed how the sheep kept close to the hedge, and, as they moved
on, they left little tufts of their wool sticking on the thorns. No sooner had
they done this, than some birds came and picked up the wool, then flew off as
quickly as they could to make nests for their little baby birds. When Lena saw
all this happening, she remembered what had happened the day before, and she
said to herself, "How thankful I am that my wish was not granted, and the hedge
burned down. Now I see that there is a good use even for the thorns and
thistles."
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and
small;
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them
all.
love,
Mrs Seaton
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