Scripture Reading — 1 Corinthians 12:12-21Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. — 1 Corinthians 12:14When worker bees first hatch and emerge from their cells, their first task is to clean out their cell so that a new egg can
Scripture Reading — Colossians 1:15-20He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. — Colossians 1:18Honeybees and human beings have a fasc
Scripture Reading — 1 Corinthians 3:16-23You yourselves are God’s temple and . . . God’s Spirit dwells in your midst. . . . — 1 Corinthians 3:16A few years ago, a strong wind toppled one of the beehives behind our barn. The hive had been thriv
Scripture Reading — Psalm 133:1-3They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. — Acts 2:42Have you heard of “personal space”? It’s described as the amount of space a person feels i
Scripture Reading — 1 Corinthians 3:5-15We are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building. — 1 Corinthians 3:9Honeybees are great builders. Inside their hive they make honeycombs consisting of hundreds of six-sided cells.
Scripture Reading — 1 Corinthians 12:12-31Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. — 1 Corinthians 12:12People who count honeybees estimate that there are 20,000 to 60,000 bees in
Scripture Reading — John 9:1-11“As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” — John 9:4-5My favorite time at our beehives is around
Scripture Reading — John 10:7-18“I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” — John 10:16As a keeper of honeybees, I’ve grown a bi
Scripture Reading — Ephesians 6:18-20Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. — Ephesians 6:18As a child, I was taught to pray a simple bedtime prayer. It was a “repeat-after-me” prayer, and it started like t
Scripture Reading — Genesis 3:1-19; Romans 8:20-23The whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. — Romans 8:22We might think that beekeeping should be easy: get some bees, put them in a hive, a
Scripture Reading — 2 Corinthians 8:1-15Since you excel in everything . . . see that you also excel in this grace of giving. — 2 Corinthians 8:7When we installed two new “nucs” of bees in our hive boxes last spring, both seemed ready to become
Scripture Reading — Psalm 104:10-18“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” — Acts 17:26Our reading from Psalm 104 p
