West Sussex County Times reported that Rescue teams worked through the night in a battle to save the cow stuck in a muddy river in Horsham. It seems it had strayed from the Warnham Local Nature Reserve into Boldings Brook and had become well and truly stuck. Thankfully for all concerned there was a happy ending to what could have been a tragic loss. We trust she is lowing happily again.
I can remember just one time when, as a boy, I was out walking with my brother somewhere near Hawkins Pond in the forest, when my little legs (and they were quite little then) sank into a horrible smelly iron red bog up to my knees. I remember crying out in shock, and was thankful that big brother was there to pull me out, even if we did have a rather pongy walk home! Actually, I think we’d probably strayed from what path there was – and shouldn’t have been there anyway.
I couldn’t help thinking of the opening verses of Psalm 40, where King David is looking back on when he was rescued from a similar situation, whether physically or spiritually we’re not sure, but it was a deep and nasty pit that he had slipped into, and was sinking in the mud and mire. Just look at those words, the Lord having heard his cry for help: ‘He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.’
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