When God Uses His Creation to Reveal Himself To Us

Look what I found outside my house today!

I was going to use this terra cotta planter this afternoon until I saw what lay inside. The large “nest-like” thing is actually a man-made thing my mom gave me. But inside of that, this sweet little mommy bird built her own nest, complete with six little brown-speckled eggs.

Do you know how long I had to stand there to get this shot? I believe this is a Bewick’s Wren, but I may be wrong.

I watched her come and go every few minutes with a piece of something special for her nest. Diligently, hard at work to make her home for her soon-to-come babies. I observed as each time she came and went, she did so cautiously, on guard for any danger. As I watched her, I realized that she didn’t stop. Not once did she sit and rest inside with her little eggs. She kept going and going, popping in and out to keep building her nest, which quite frankly, looked just fine to me. And then I thought, this is what it means to be hard at work, building your home.

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