Count Your Blessings #82 – Sparrows in the Rain

Although the weather forecast was for it to brighten up today, it has rained all day. We are good at rain in Lancashire.

I’m now quite glad I mowed the lawn yesterday and didn’t put it off for another day.

We get quite a lot of birds in our garden. Today it was the turn of the sparrows.

The sparrow is quite dull bird really. It’s brown, brown and a bit more brown.

Today they have made me smile, which makes them wonderful.

Sparrows go around in small flocks, we had roughly 30. I say roughly 30 because they never stay still long enough to be counted.

They were definitely English sparrows too. We have two bird feeders half way along a fence. There isn’t enough room for 30 sparrows on one bird feeder. Being true English sparrows they did the correct thing and formed an orderly queue. Four sparrows on the feeders, a queue of roughly another ten along the fence with the rest in the hedge beyond. Each one would queue up, when it was their turn they would land on the feeder and eat. Once they had eaten they would go to the back of the queue.

They seemed to be loving it. They weren’t huddled up trying to escape the rain. They were getting on with their life.

Some words of Jesus: 

“Dear friends, don’t be afraid of those who want to kill you. They can only kill the body; they cannot do any more to you. But I’ll tell you whom to fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill people and then throw them into hell.

“What is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to him than a whole flock of sparrows.

Luke 12