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God Takes Care of the Birds
By Ken Horn | May 21, 2008
On my drive to work this morning I got a glimpse of a typical sight for this time of year. An apparently full-grown bird, with ruffled feathers, stood desperately fluttering its wings, chirping loudly.
Late spring is when this sight can be seen most often. Young birds, accustomed to being fed by their parents have left the nest when fully fledged, their feathers still askew. For a time, they follow their parents about and, dutifully, the parents return to feed them.
But the time comes when the parents no longer return. Thus, the desperate fluttering and cries. Time passes and food doesn’t arrive.
But don’t worry, God has built survival instinct into the little critters. I have watched it many times. When hunger and impatience finally get the better of the big baby, he flies off and finds his own food. He’s on his own from then on.
“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?” (Matt. 6:26).
Here are a few of my photos of birds this spring:
Western Tanager, Oregon
Cardinal, Missouri
Tricolored Heron, Texas
American Goldfinch, Missouri
Topics: Photos by Ken |
May 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
What an awesome perspective on life! I’m also a bird lover, we have an abundance of indigo buntings around here! One of my favorites is the pileated woodpecker, (some are as big as a small duck)how about some pictures of the “lillies of the field?”
May 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Jeff, you have mentioned two of my favorite birds. The areas around the trails I walk are home to many indigo buntings. Here’s a photo I shot of one, though it doesn’t do it justice.
Haven’t photographed a pileated yet.
“Lilies of the field” to come.