And now for the exciting snow update. Today we awoke to our first snowstorm of the season! Pretty puny at five inches but it’s still snow to be cleared.
During winter storms I’m always concerned about our birds (and so is Farah!) Because we’ve had a mild winter we haven’t many winter customers to our feeder out back but I become very attached to the few that come. A flock of goldfinches and several Amer. tree sparrows regularly stop by to refuel. Blue jays throw the seed on the ground and the dark-eyed juncos gratefully clean it up. This morning our trees were crowded with disgruntled mourning doves. I’m glad I thought to fill the feeder yesterday or they might have brought their picket signs! They are more dependent on feeders when snow covers the ground. But those brave juncos, trusting there is seed under it all, come and dig through until they found the treasure they crave! Their past experience told them there would be food -- no matter how bleak the prospects appeared.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26
We should all be like those trusting little birds. In the midst of life's storms, we can always find the treasure we seek in God's Word. It's been there for us in the past and, no matter how blurred and confused our present may be, His wisdom will continue to comfort and guide us! Remember how Jesus answered Satan's temptation to turn the stones into bread while He was fasting in the wilderness in Luke 4:4?
But He answered him, saying, 'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'
We’ll be well fed, too, by feeding daily on His precious Word!
Love as always, Elaine (where’s that shovel?)
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