The Giants at our Sides

Do you remember trying to outrun the monster walking along with you when you were a child or changing the way he walked by altering your stride length or by picking up your feet?

The sun is very low and yet light intensity appears more powerful at this time of year. Our eyes are unfamiliar to its brightness and I bet you have reached for your sun glasses on more than one occasion when driving since the start of 2010. Over 2 million people in the UK suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) each Winter and most of us enjoy sunshine so we have personal as well as scientific evidence that sun light is beneficial.


We all understand the power of trees to be nature's air conditioners and something of how they can purify the air we breath but researchers have proven that some molecules change in Woodland light and this atmosphere appears to have beneficial effects on sufferers with certain life threatening conditions. I'm not sure if there are more good chemicals or how the molecules change, but there is a magic in the dappled haze of a woodland or orchard at any time of the year that we all can experience.

A few days ago the heavy winter sun was casting a shadow of the spire into our orchard. It seemed to go on forever. The quality of the light was different to that of a woodland, but it was awe inspiring.



I glanced up to the spire and my eyes reflected God's glory. It wasn't 'Ex Terra Lucem', but 'Out Of The Spire, Light'.