Before the Dawn

A SONG OF THE DAWN

I don't usually wake early anymore. Years ago I would be doing all my best work by 6:30 am, but nowadays, like many of you, there are waking times during the night and I no longer wake very early.

Except on Monday March 12th.

There was a noise in the bedroom. Now noises in the night are not good news. It wasn't a loud noise and no, I hadn't woken myself up by snoring!

As I concentrated I realised that the sound was actually coming from outside our slightly open window. The noise suddenly focussed into a song. It was a bird singing. I'm not good at spotting birds unless they carry a little sign saying which kind of a bird they are. I think it was a blackbird.

It was so early and so dark outside that at first I thought it might be a nightingale.
It was exactly 5:37am.

But then I realised that I was listening to a bird singing "The Dawn Chorus" and sure enough, although everything seemed totally black at the time of the singing, it wasn't long before the skies began to lighten.

Amid the darkness that little bird had sensed that light was on its way. It was the dawn of a new day. It was dark all around but the watchman of the night had seen that the day was at hand.

In our Western nations like the United Kingdom and France, we see Christianity in decline. Faith and morality are openly scorned and pressure groups compete to reduce the influence of the Ten Commandments and Christian principles.

But I believe that is going to change.

Derek


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Fourth Sundays of the month
Eglise Evangelique Libre de Bergerac 4 Rue Durou BERGERAC
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