OUT
of HIBERNATION
Yesterday
a winter wonderland
as
snowflakes piled up like white sand.
Creatures
hibernated outside
as
people hibernated inside.
Too
cold to venture out.
A
snow day so stayed put.
Traffic
minimal.
View
sensational.
Everything’s
covered in white -
a
pretty, peaceful sight.
Looks
like a white Christmas
has
descended on us.
Tree
limbs frosted white.
Evergreens
now iced,
like
frosting on a cake.
Creatures hibernate.
Quiet
and still.
No
movement spills.
No
birds are seen
in
the evergreens.
Today,
though, many black birds flock
in
the crab apple tree out back.
Ravenous
from yesterday’s fasting
they
feast then are seen sharing.
For
more birds wait their turn
this
sunny winter morn.
Hundreds
seen descend
to
sup and then lend.
They
seem to share this offering
found
under the snow’s covering.
Listen.
Joyous chattering.
No
longer hibernating.
Ever
thankful they sing grateful praise
to
their Creator as songs they raise
for
God provides their daily bread
as
each and everyday they are fed.
Crows
are now heard cawing in the distance.
God
must have provided them sustenance
for
God’s eyes are on each and every sparrow,
blue
jay, cardinal, chickadee, and crow.
As
God is concerned about the least of these,
then
certainly He will your needs and wants appease.
In
the meantime, thank Him for His faithfulness
and
in His daily blessings everyday rest.
*
* * * *
Thank
you, God, for the beautiful snow.
It
comes as a blessing bestowed.
Thank
you, God, for the birds that teach me
everyday
your faithfulness to see.
God's
voice thunders in marvelous ways;
he
does great things beyond our understanding.
He
says to the snow,
'Fall
on the earth.'
Job
37:5-6a
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?
Matthew
6:26
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