Reflection – Seasoning of a daily walk
“Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” Mk 9:50
A highlight of a daily morning walk this week was the sight of a very large koala nestled in the crook of a gum, fast asleep. The tree was on the corner of the playing field of the local primary school. Koalas are not infrequent in our suburb, but I hadn’t noticed a koala before in this particular spot. As it is school holidays, I wondered if the animal had taken advantage of the quieter than usual surrounds for rest.
The pruning of some trees in our local streets this week provoked quite a lot of protest from residents, precisely because the koalas have a ‘corridor’ of treescapes that they use to travel and move around the area. Residents were worried that some of the trees pruned may have been part of that corridor, and thus destroying a section of the path for our local koala population.
The wonderful sight of the koala on my walk reminded me that some of our unique fellow residents also ‘walk’ around our streets – albeit at a greater height than ground level, and at a different time of the day. And the importance of considering when and how to prune our treescapes so that the koalas are left in peace to ‘walk’ as they need.
The sight also added a depth of meaning and joy to my walks this week – you might even say a ‘seasoning’ of this daily event in my life!
Peace
Rev Ceri
