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| Blue Jay on my backyard feeder |
I chose the name of this blog for a couple of different reasons apart from
the beauty of the verse quoted above. The first is that I have a small
obsession with birds. I'm a burgeoning "bird nerd," if you will. I
have some dear friends and a well-timed photography workshop to thank for that.
I have feeders in my back yard and I love to watch the cardinals, woodpeckers,
sparrows and finches flit about. Their bright colors and sweet mannerisms
"make my heart smile" as Southern Belle would say.
The second reason is actually a couple of verses from Matthew 10
("Are
not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground
outside your Father’s care...So don’t be afraid; you are
worth more than many sparrows"-verses 29,31) and
Matthew 6:26 ("Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or
reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you
not much more valuable than they?").
This last verse especially, this constant reminder of God's
love, protection, provision is something that He's really been walking me
through this last year. He provides for our every need, something he does for
the birds of the air and for the flowers of the field, but so much more so than
that. He causes particular friends to cross our paths when we didn't even know
we were missing such lights, He provides that unexpected check at the time when
there are too many bills and not enough funds, He answers fervent prayers in
ways we couldn't even imagine. He is Jehovah.
SO, while topics on this blog will vary greatly and not always
be related specifically to my walk with Christ or His abounding love (get ready for random musings, QotD from the kids I work with, the hilarity that is our life with three dogs and a cat), like the
sparrow and swallow in the verse at the top of this blog, I want to my home to
be a place near his Almighty Altar.
