I recently got a bird feeder and bird bath (I know… I sound really, really old don’t I? I just remember being a little kid and loving to watch the birds eat and play in the water. Something has happened to them over the years though; they’ve evolved or something. They no longer play in water. Hmmm). Anyway, I have to fill the bird feeder up every other day and it’s really a pain. I have to go get the cup, fill it up, walk over to the tree (I’m exhausted just writing about it), get under the tree and then get “tree stuff” in my hair. For what? So some birds can eat gourmet seeds? Why? They already have worms somewhere don’t they?
Oh, but i love to watch them eat it. Sometimes about 7 birds will sit perched on the feeder. They’re so cute. Plus, they seem to know me now. I go outside and I almost feel like Snow White (except I’m just waiting for one of them to poop on me).
I was thinking about this bird feeding deal this morning as I was praying. I was asking Him for something “silly” (ok, it was another IPOD since my daughter lost my old one), and I stopped myself and said, “There is so much more I could be asking You for… I’m sorry.” Then I thought about the birds. They don’t NEED me to give them bird seed… it’s not a ”need” for them; it’s a ”want”. And I WANT to give it to them because it makes me happy to see them happy. I couldn’t help but to think how much more God must be like that with us. I know, for the bible tells me so, that He wants to give us the desires of our hearts. God wants to give us our wants and it makes Him smile to do so.
So… I’m going to keep on giving out bird seed and allow those birds to be a reminder of how much more God wants to give me…. to give you.
“Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to Him than they are?” Matthew 6:26-27
