We have a bird feeder in our backyard for the first time. As the days get colder the activity around the feeder is picking up. The customers line up on the evergreen tree and then take their turn packing in as much as they can hold. I am a little worried though. I don't know a lot about birds but it seems like they should be heading south soon. I think it is the shortage of food that reminds them to pack their leisure suits and head to Florida. I may be changing that with what seems to be a miraculous bird buffet. My fear is that one of these days I am going to see a bunch of chubby frozen birds gathered around my bird feeder and the guilt will be overwhelming. Actually, I won't suffer that much guilt. Who knows, I may use them as a prop for some obscure point in a sermon. Here is my point. God designed birds to fly south. There are probably a bunch of really good reasons. I just recently mentioned King David in our Old Testament class. "In the times when kings go to war...David stayed home in Jerusalem". David quit doing what he was supposed to do and within a short time he jumped into bed with Bathsheba and the rest is history. Sometimes I feel like taking the easy way. I don't feel like doing really wicked things right away, I just feel like I would like to take a break from doing the things I know I should. From now on, I will look at the bird feeder and imagine those chubby forzen carcasses and keep doing what I am designed by God to do. I suggest you do the same as we get ready for winter to come.
Friday, November 9, 2007
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You gotta bring a frozen robin in as a prop! Make it so it's mouth is open--mid chirp. Just as in the days of Noah. The birds were eating and drinking, marrying and laying eggs when they should have been flying south for the winter. Boom peep-cicle.
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I wouldnt feel too guilty.....I hear they're a delicacy in China!
I know how you feel. A couple years ago I had a humming bird that just wouldn't leave to fly south. I too thought that I was keeping him here and chose to stop feed as the frost was heavy and things were starting to freeze. Later I learned that those who are injuered, sick or too old to make the trip south will stay all year if you feed them. Sadly I am guilty of creating a small skinny brid-scicle BB
ahhh...but some birds are meant by God to stay north for the winter. Check out the American Goldfinch - whose feathers turn from brilliant gold (their summer outfit) to a tawny color for better camouflage in the winter... some of us were meant to be comitted to the north just like the Godlfinch.
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