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 Add soy sauce (my favourite) Tabasco, sweet chilli sauce lemon grass, Deep inside the nest is the queen termite – a
lemon or lime juice huge creature which at 35 millimetres long
dwarfs the worker termites. She is little more
 Add nuts and seeds than an egg laying machine, served by all the
 Chopped brussel sprouts, spinach other termites. The other insects are either
workers, or soldiers, which guard the entrances
I’m sure you can think of more to the nest. All the termites work together by
instinct as though they are a single organism.
Afterwards It will keep in a container in the fridge for a day or two. Can be
frozen I enjoy it as a salad the next day The workers repair the nest and provide food.
African termites even have underground
gardens where they grow fungus in a special
compost made of dead wood mixed with
droppings.
Once a year (at mating time) some male and
female termites grow wings and fly the nest.
After one flight they cast off their wings, which
they will never need again. The male and female couples then start another nest.
They don’t think about what they do – the whole colony is “programmed” to work
as a unit. Termites could not learn to build their towers at the right angle to the
sun, or how to grow fungus in a special compost. And how do the flying termites
know they need to cast off their wings after that single flight? Everything about
termites points to these tiny wonders having been created by God to live the way
they do, and that He continues to provide for these little creatures.
After last year’s trials, and our way of life turned upside down, let us be
encouraged, as we remember the untold numbers of kind people who went out
of their way to help others, here in our own community as well as in the wider
area. For many who lost loved ones, this New Year will be filled with sorrow, but
again we have opportunities to care for them. As the termites spend their whole
lives working for the benefit of that huge nest of insects, so we too can learn from
them and do our part to help others. The Bible says that God makes His rain to
fall, and sun to shine, so that everyone is blessed. All people are important to Him.
The Bible also says that God knows when a sparrow falls to the ground, but that
we are much more important to Him than many sparrows. He says that He knows
exactly how many hairs we have on our heads! (That’s easier with some people
than others!) (Matthew 10:29-31) If God knows so much about us, He also knows
when we are distressed as well as when we are happy. So no matter what this
New Year holds for each one of us, remember that God loves you and cares for
you. And as you talk to Him in prayer, God had said, “Never will I leave you, never
will I forsake you.” So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, I will not
be afraid.” (Hebrews 13:5-6)
We wish you all a very God blessed New Year, and pray it will be better than last
year in every way.

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