A Message from our Minister - Rev Gill Daniel

Abseiling Arachnids

As I walked the few paces to my car from my front door,

I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks! Before me, a barely

visible, fifteen foot high, strand of silken thread hung

perpendicularly from an oak tree to the ground beneath my

feet. Unbelievable! I nearly walked into it!

A Garden Orb Weaver spider, with the distinctive white

cross on her abdomen, was abseiling to the ground from my Oak tree, and was clinging to the bottom of this silken thread.

Mesmerised, I watched her climb off the delicate, gossamer thread, onto a carpet of colourful Autumn leaves under the towering golden oak.                                                      She attached some miniscule, silky white flecks of fluff onto the delicate thread above her head, and soon made her return journey back up the silky thread to the safety of her tree. Then the penny dropped!

These tiny white specks of fluff were baby spiderlings. This spider had abseiled twenty feet to locate, rescue and retrieve her fallen babies, and take them safely home. These teeny babies would never have found their way back home on their own. They needed help and mum found them. Next day, these tiny baby spiders were safe and secure in a new, much lower web with their mum.

Consider how far you have fallen! Rev 2:5

At Christmas love came down ‘from above’ to rescue a fallen world and bring us back home to himself. God himself came to earth and laid aside his divinity to rescue you! You are worth it! Let’s thank God for Jesus this Christmas!

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. Matt 1:21

With love,  Rev Gill x