It takes twelve bees an entire lifetime to make one teaspoon of honey. This means each time you put honey on a biscuit or in your cup of tea, that’s the life work of twelve bees. I’ll be honest, I really thought a single bee would be able to more more than 1/12 teaspoon of honey. Seriously Mr. Bee? All the “busy as a bee” work running from flower to flower, flying back to the hive, back to the flowers, back to the hive and the only thing that you have to show for your entire lifetime is a couple of drops of honey? Bummer.
My guess is that you sometimes feel like a bee. Running from one meeting or appointment to the next, wondering why you are doing all that you, hoping that it all adds up to something significant.
But the Christian Hope is that all of the work we have to do in this world will ultimately be completed. All of the visions and hopes for Good work are not just our imaginations gone wild. Instead, they are reverberations from the world to come; echoes of a world in which the work is completed, good and right; a place flowing with milk and…