Lessons from the Songs Birds Sing

On Monday morning I was sitting on my couch with my windows open filling my home with sunshine, a warm breeze, and the song of the Birds Singing!

This morning I was able to take the time spent in prayer and studying God's word and of course as I was praying over all the things that are going in my life and my families, and community, and my country, and this world! The list just kept going on in my heart as I was talking to my father in heaven. After a while I just had STOP and ask for peace through all this.

I don't think it is just me who has these moments of an overwhelming fear when we see all the things going on in this world. It is scary! This week we are just hearing about the Swine flu and what a pandemic it causing. We still see war going on and more to come, the economy falling around us. And this was when I noticed the birds singing!

I just had to take a little thought break in the midst of my prayer time and listen to their song. You know what the songs title was? "Inmeasurable Peace". Just watch them, chirping away, floating from branch to branch, as if they don't have a care in the world. Don't they see the chaos? They would be affected too, right?

I started thinking about all the struggles they face. They have had rougher winters and seasonal changes. They are dependant on nature to supply their food, and if the season's are rough they don't get all their needs met. They are dependant on the natural system to direct their travel plans. Yes, they are effected by the long winter and late springs just as were are. All the hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires and other natural disasters detroy their homes also. Of course there is always an abundance of larger animals who see them as they little prey and seek to devour them!

No I am not an animal rights, activist! Here is the point. Knowing all this, it was amazing to me to hear these little creatures still singing as if their world was perfect! Their song "Inmeasurable Peace" was the song of creatures, that because they knew their creator, had peace in spite of the chaos!

Listen to the words of their Song.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
"Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

This is a passage I want to keep in my heart to give me "Inmeasurable Peace", just as the birds of the air and the Lily of the Valley. Luke 12:22-34

Have a Blessed day! Anitakay