Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott,
And you're joining me as I take my pilgrimage across England following the Mary and Michael energy currents.
And today has been super special,
I'm pausing at the bottom of a footpath that links to a very quiet lane,
But there might be the occasional car that goes by,
And along the hedge bank here there are glorious daffodils,
Yellow and bobbing in the breeze.
It's nice and sheltered down here,
There's a very cool chill wind that's been blowing,
Sunny as well.
So there was one point about an hour ago where I was in the sunshine thinking oh I think it's time to take off some layers,
And then now I'm feeling like I need to dig out my gloves again because the temperature seems to fluctuate so much from warm to cold,
Mainly though I've got to say it's been cold today.
And Showbrooke Church has got a Ukrainian flag flying at its tower,
And I've got another couple of miles to go before I finish my walk today.
But my reflections so far I feel are really strong that I want to share those reflections with you now.
And it started when I walked past Woodland Cops.
I was walking past it,
Minding my own business,
And the only way I can describe it is I felt as though I could hear the trees sing.
There was a lightness and joyfulness of energy that seemed to be connected to the trees.
And as I wandered onwards reflecting on this moment and wondering if maybe this was going to be the pinnacle of my day and if it was I would have been very satisfied because it was exquisite in that sense of connection.
As I wandered on I began to realise that my desire to understand nature is maybe the wrong way for me to phrase it.
The reflection I'm having as I'm walking is that maybe it's more about the ability to listen to nature.
Maybe I don't need to learn a new language,
The language of nature.
Maybe it's about listening to her song.
And as I travelled on I got to a place called Crediton and there's a church there dedicated to Saint Boniface.
And the Michael and Mary energy currents cross in the centre of the church.
It's called a node point when these two currents that weave their way up from Cornwall up to Norfolk cross over and they do cross over at certain points.
And I went into the church and I almost felt moved to tears.
There was just this quality of stillness,
Of beauty,
Of reverence.
The air just seemed thick with spirituality.
And I spoke to somebody working in the church and asked if maybe I could light a candle and he went and found me a candle and led me to the lady chapel and I lit a candle in memory of my dad and my aunt and uncle.
And I just spent some time there reflecting.
And then I got to a place where the Mary current comes through.
It's at Upton Hellions,
The church is dedicated to Saint Mary and I walked into this church and it was like there was a hush,
A deadened hush.
And there was this thick stillness,
That's the best way I can describe it.
And I realised that this was a quality that I miss out on in life.
In the everyday navigation of being a human being in life,
I miss this sense of stillness and quiet and solitude.
My reflection as I walk on through Showbrooke and onto Stockley Pomeroy is to,
It's just to reflect,
It's not to ask in a nagging kind of way or an urgent kind of way,
But just to reflect on how might I bring more moments of stillness and quiet into my life.
They are so refreshing,
So refreshing for my soul.
Today has been all about that delicious sense of quiet,
Stillness and silence.
And the richness then of being a human being when I live from this place of quiet.
