This October I am taking up the challenge to write everyday with others from the Five Minute Friday writing community on the 31 Days of Free Writes 2019 Challenge. I am going to be sharing life lessons learnt from my mother hen!
The way of a Mother Hen with her chicks is truly one of the wonders of the animal world. There are many life and spiritual lessons we can learn from her. These particular lessons have been drawn from watching my own ‘Broody Hen’ this summer when she successfully hatched and reared 7 chicks.
So meet Matilda, she is a grey speckled hen with a pom pom on her head, so quite regal looking! She actually is a neighbour’s hen who went “broody”, that is the natural instinct to sit and hatch eggs took over her, so we took her to ours, gave her a safe place and put 10 of our own eggs under her to sit on.
So starting from tomorrow (Monday), I will be posting a very short daily devotional for 4 weeks, – Monday through to Friday with a time to pause and reflect at the weekend. The devotionals will be short and will include a scripture reading, a little story about Matilda & her chicks and the lessons we can learn from her, followed by a short prayer.
See table of contents below and click on the day’s reading to take you directly to that devotional day’s devotional.
Table of Contents
Week 1 – Sitting
Day One – Come Away
Day Two – Focus
Week 2 – Hatching & Protecting
Weekend – Pause & Reflect
Week 3 – Learning & Growing
Week 4 – Community
“I’m participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes in October! www.fiveminutefriday.com/31days2019“
Finding God in the Everyday 
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