We have many visitors
to our back garden –
grey squirrels, garden birds
and even, once in a blue moon,
a hedgehog!

But recently
we have had a new
and surprising visitor –
a blue tit …
who isn’t blue!
It looks for all the worlds as if,
when God was making him,
He ran out of blue paint!

So this wee blue tit
is not at all blue
and is instead
pale, dusty yellow, grey …
and beautiful!

Aren’t there so many times
in life
that things just don’t go
according to plan?
I can’t help feeling that,
when this happens,
we need to take a step back
and invite God in
to see what He can do.

Then maybe,
between us and God,
we will come up with something
every bit as innovative, surprising
and beautiful
as our wee blue tit
who isn’t blue.

© Claire Murray, 4th October 2022