I enjoy the wild birds of our area whether in summer or winter.
Feeding the birds is not a cheap hobby but a most enjoyable one.
We have started our winter feeding of the birds as the cold set in and before the snow arrived. In doing so we are rewarded with the sounds of their chatter at the feeders and the welcome sight of colors amidst dreary leafless trees and lots of white. I am very excited about this winters feeding of birds as I have already got cardinals at my feeder. I have not had a cardinal at my feeder in almost twenty years, and that was when I lived in another part of town. So to my amazement and great pleasure I looked out a week ago and there was a most amazingly bright red cardinal eating in my front yard. The brightness of his color tipped me off that he was a he. :) The males are much brighter, as is often the case in nature. So as I keep watching the female is the one who continues to show up . I never see my beautiful male cardinal. My husband informed me that he had seen him flitting away from the feeder one day as he drove away . I wish he was not so shy !
I am so thankful for these beautiful birds that bring me such joy and pleasure. Even as I am typing this blog today I have seen a new bird added to my feeder. I believe the reason I am getting some extra visitors to my feeder is due to the fact that I was having issues with my little feeder this morning so I decided rather than have my bird friends go with out food from my address I would dump some feed on the ground as well as in an egg carton I had lying about. What a blessing I had trouble with my feeder. A friend of mine told me that cardinals are more ground feeders and so the chick-a-dees had been scattering a calling card of black sunflower seeds to draw the others in.
One of the down falls of feeding the birds is that gray squirrels love the seeds too and they are not small eaters and will even chew into the feeder to have better access to the seeds. I know as they have been destroying my feeder. Now I don't want you to think I am a monster who hates squirrels, but I cannot afford to feed them or replace feeders at every whim of these beautiful gray animals . I have been chasing them off and scaring them each time I see them at the ground or the feeder. This afternoon after a particularly busy day of gray squirrel chasing I saw one sitting way up in the tree and staring down . I thought how he looked as though he was maybe in prayer. I smile here as I do not believe they pray. But I could see he was intent and watching down the tree. I thought how how hard it must be for him to wait for a more opportune time to come back down to have at all those wonderful seeds .
It makes me think about my own quest for the things I want to get to and enjoy. I, too, struggle in fear of what might be there to keep me from getting to my desired seeds in this life. So many things that keep me from the Fathers perfect plans for me . I get anxious and sit , like that gray squirrel watching, and yes , praying , for a chance to get to the desired place where I can have full access to what is before me that God has provided. Unlike the gray squirrel God is not setting out a wonderful platter of the desired seeds that would fill me and then chasing me away to keep me from them . Quite the contrary. God has promised me in His word to supply all my needs and to defend me and be #ENOUGH for me . So I am going to keep watching these birds God has provided for not only His good pleasure but mine as well. While I do I am going to think on the ways God is #enough for me, and learn with His help to have confidence that He is setting out the seeds that will grow me into yeh woman of God he has had planned for me all along.
Matthew 6: 25-26
I tell you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about having some thing to eat, or drink, or wear. Isn't life more than food or clothing? Look at the birds in the sky ! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth more than birds?
Feeding the birds is not a cheap hobby but a most enjoyable one.
We have started our winter feeding of the birds as the cold set in and before the snow arrived. In doing so we are rewarded with the sounds of their chatter at the feeders and the welcome sight of colors amidst dreary leafless trees and lots of white. I am very excited about this winters feeding of birds as I have already got cardinals at my feeder. I have not had a cardinal at my feeder in almost twenty years, and that was when I lived in another part of town. So to my amazement and great pleasure I looked out a week ago and there was a most amazingly bright red cardinal eating in my front yard. The brightness of his color tipped me off that he was a he. :) The males are much brighter, as is often the case in nature. So as I keep watching the female is the one who continues to show up . I never see my beautiful male cardinal. My husband informed me that he had seen him flitting away from the feeder one day as he drove away . I wish he was not so shy !
I am so thankful for these beautiful birds that bring me such joy and pleasure. Even as I am typing this blog today I have seen a new bird added to my feeder. I believe the reason I am getting some extra visitors to my feeder is due to the fact that I was having issues with my little feeder this morning so I decided rather than have my bird friends go with out food from my address I would dump some feed on the ground as well as in an egg carton I had lying about. What a blessing I had trouble with my feeder. A friend of mine told me that cardinals are more ground feeders and so the chick-a-dees had been scattering a calling card of black sunflower seeds to draw the others in.
One of the down falls of feeding the birds is that gray squirrels love the seeds too and they are not small eaters and will even chew into the feeder to have better access to the seeds. I know as they have been destroying my feeder. Now I don't want you to think I am a monster who hates squirrels, but I cannot afford to feed them or replace feeders at every whim of these beautiful gray animals . I have been chasing them off and scaring them each time I see them at the ground or the feeder. This afternoon after a particularly busy day of gray squirrel chasing I saw one sitting way up in the tree and staring down . I thought how he looked as though he was maybe in prayer. I smile here as I do not believe they pray. But I could see he was intent and watching down the tree. I thought how how hard it must be for him to wait for a more opportune time to come back down to have at all those wonderful seeds .
It makes me think about my own quest for the things I want to get to and enjoy. I, too, struggle in fear of what might be there to keep me from getting to my desired seeds in this life. So many things that keep me from the Fathers perfect plans for me . I get anxious and sit , like that gray squirrel watching, and yes , praying , for a chance to get to the desired place where I can have full access to what is before me that God has provided. Unlike the gray squirrel God is not setting out a wonderful platter of the desired seeds that would fill me and then chasing me away to keep me from them . Quite the contrary. God has promised me in His word to supply all my needs and to defend me and be #ENOUGH for me . So I am going to keep watching these birds God has provided for not only His good pleasure but mine as well. While I do I am going to think on the ways God is #enough for me, and learn with His help to have confidence that He is setting out the seeds that will grow me into yeh woman of God he has had planned for me all along.
Matthew 6: 25-26
I tell you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about having some thing to eat, or drink, or wear. Isn't life more than food or clothing? Look at the birds in the sky ! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth more than birds?
Amen! God is the Great Provider and He is enough for us! Thank you for sharing your heart!
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Mary!
Thank you for sharing your #enough post. I could visualize the birds as your wrote about them. God Bless You!
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