While I can’t say I’ve actually witnessed something like this, my husband and I take great joy in watching these feathered beauties at the bird feeder near our kitchen window while we eat breakfast. It’s fascinating to see them eat some themselves, and then fill their little beaks full to sometimes overflowing, to carry to waiting little ones in the nest.
Our world is changing ever so dramatically as we see people trying to change who they are, in a very literal sense. The design of nature, as we know it, is perfectly made and runs right on time, day in and day out, without any interference from any of us! God designed it that way, just as he designed us.
The Bible mentions that God even takes care of the sparrow, and we are much closer to his heart than even the pretty birds of his creation. I wonder, however if we take care of each other in the same way?
Storms pummel our lives everyday. It may not be a rain storm like the purple martin endured to feed her young, with pelting liquid wetness and sounds of thunder crashing in our ears or even lightening blinding our eyes. But storms still come. It may be financial, emotional, physical or ever spiritual, as satan uses every ploy and kind of deceit he can fathom, to throw us off balance. We are left fighting the wind and adversity feeling like we are never going to make it to ‘our nest’ or ‘personal safe place’.
As Believers we are told to care for one another. While we each battle our own personal storms, it’s sometimes easier to manage or endure, not only when someone helps us, but when we can help someone else. It's comforting to know help can come in so many different forms. Both the momma and daddy birds are often responsible for feeding the babies. Their mindset is to make sure they are fed and protected.
God’s Word tells us ‘where your treasure is, there your heart will be also'. We need to ‘treasure’ each other. As caregivers for our church, or biological family—or even someone we don’t know well, we can make sure our neighbor has ‘food’ in the form of emotional support, financial (if we’re able); physical, possibly in the sense of transportation or other way; or even actual literal food stuffs. And there are dozens more ways we can help each other given our specific talents and gifts. The goal is to make those we care about —and perhaps those we don’t know well— see Jesus through us.
When we are able to help someone else, the view we take on our own situation changes. We are blessed when we can ‘bless’ someone else. What gift —given by Him, do you have that you can share with someone else? It’s hard to see sometimes when we feel like we are about to ‘go under.’ Often times, however, when we place our focus on someone else, our own problems, trouble or circumstance doesn’t seem so horrible, even while in the storm.
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