BEEHIVE WORSHIP

John Colman Wood, anthropologist and beekeeper wrote:
“I go from hive to hive; taking care of business; looking at bees; and, yes, even talking to them. As I do all this, a shift occurs. My mind grows quiet. My heart slows. I become more focused than usual, aware of myself and what is near. The bees, I have learned, do not like a distracted beekeeper. I feel the way I feel when I am sitting in meeting for worship.

Keeping bees is not simply a matter of taking their honey. We beekeepers have a reciprocal relationship with our bees. And bees are remarkably attentive. They know what the beekeeper does and what the beekeeper smells like. There is even science to indicate that bees recognize individual people by sight. Beekeepers also come to know the personalities of our different hives. We know the behaviors, the sounds, and even the smells of healthy and sick, strong and weak, peaceful and agitated colonies.
Being together, we come in time to know each other. I have come to see my work with bees as a form of worship. Writing about bees is an opportunity to reflect on what worship means to me.”

Perhaps we need a Beehive Worship Service rather than a Traditional or Contemporary Service.
“How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey. (Psalm 119:103)

“Look at the birds in the air. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.” Jesus