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By Gloria Pierre Dean
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“Cockington Country Park is a beautiful mix of picturesque well-ordered garden landscapes, open parkland, rural countryside and substantial woodland.” [https://www.englishriviera.co.uk/things-to-do/cockington-village-and-country-park-p140183]
For our family, it was the beautiful gentle hills, rose gardens, gorgeous trails, splendid views and green grass of the parkland that brought us to the picnic site. We purchased some items and brought some with us. We picked a location, far from any crowds. This was our special time as a family of four to sit, eat unhindered and glory in what we were seeing around us. Our home was a few miles away.
A spread-out tablecloth was at the centre and on it, drinks, sandwiches, fruit bowls and napkins. Thankfully there were no flies, but there were butterflies and sparrows, turtle doves plenty.
Cockington is a reminder to my family and me of the many beautiful things that God created for our enjoyment. He placed them before our eyes and gave us the tools and materials needed to habitat and enjoy. Sitting on the supple green grass, my mind was able to reflect on what God spoke into existence. It was quiet and almost traffic free.
Even the food; the laying of the tablecloth reminded me of a verse in Job 38:4.
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?”
Not in any way similar but the verse came to mind when we were in the process of laying the cloth on which we placed the food that we were to eat. A picnic in a quietly beautiful setting is an opportunity to reflect on God’s goodness to us. Unfortunately, I am also aware that around the world, many of our brothers and sisters are hungry. As Christians we are bound to help and feed the hungry, so we must.
God prepared a picnic for us. He called it Creation. On the tablecloth that I call earth, He places food, water, and places to live and be still. He provided creative skills in our minds and hands so we could farm the land, grow food, use trees, find water and find materials to build and manufacture the magnificent types of machinery that we take for granted in our time. Just as human picnics come to an end. Creator God, who never sleeps, provided a world that we are told will on day end. Matthew 24:35 says “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
Nevertheless, great hope lies in this truth. “ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;..” [Revelation 21:1].
Sinless at last. No flies! No evil will dwell there. Thus God created an eternal picnic that will never end….
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