Recent holidays are not happy times for all. The emphasis on happiness and togetherness can make this time more difficult for many. Let’s spare a thought for our brothers and sisters who are feeling unhappy and excluded, lost and alone, grieving and suffering, and consider reaching out where appropriate.

I am thinking about a dear heart in my immediate circle.

Four months ago, I was shocked by the passing of a friend of the family.

Shocked because he committed suicide.

No one saw it coming, including his Wife and Children.

He’d been drinking too much and possibly due to some challenges in his business, he hung himself, on a morning when his Wife was out for about 45 minutes visiting neighbours.

His Wife is now alone on her farm, and responsible for the breeding and care of 130 cows.

She’s in deep grief.

Goes to the cemetary three times a day; in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening before closing time.

She’s devastated by the discovery she encountered and can’t understand why it happened as they had such a good business.

Since her Husband’s suicide, whenever she’s in the cow stables, there’s a pigeon she notices.

She’d never noticed this pigeon before.

The pigeon is always there now, as if waiting for this farmer’s wife to come in and feed the live-stock.

Whenever she arrives, the pigeon flys around her and lands on her shoulders. It allows her to hold it and stroke it.

She’s given the pigeon a name and talks to it now.

In the mornings, when she comes into the stables, she calls the pigeon and it shows up out of nowhere, ready to be with her as long as she’s around in the stables.

Never before, in her whole life, did she ever have a relationship with pigeons / birds, and now, this …

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