1/16/12 Can there be such a thing as scriptural bird-watching?
Not being the resident birder here, I missed National Bird Day this year---actually I’ve missed it every year. It always falls on January 5th. I wonder, if on that day, anyone correlates Bible verses with bird habits. Probably not. Married to a semi-birder (he’s never “done” a ”big year” like the one in the recent movie by that name) I’ve learned to make a budget line item for bird food and to house our bird books with the binoculars---both within easy reach of the kitchen table.
I have even come to enjoy the pleasures of bird watching.
Bird watching is calming----though I still find hubby’s bird clock a little grating.
Bird-watching is intriguing. I now see the beauty of the female cardinal as surpassing that of the showier male.
Bird-watching is insightful. One can learn a lot from the nesting, feeding and territorial habits of birds.
Most of my viewing takes place at my big kitchen window---as do some life lessons. When I combine what I am experiencing in life with bird watching and a correlating scripture--- "Voila!"
Today’s verses for meditation come from a combination of
one of my character flaws with the beauty I see in God’s creation of these feathered friends. 
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? (Matthew 6:25-27)
