| A Sense of Order
by Ron Clark Just outside our kitchen window we have a bird feeding platform and leading up to the platform is a picket fence. I cannot say that we have attracted any exotic birds yet but we are still hoping. Waiting for the bread crumbs and seed at breakfast time are a dozen or so greedy sparrows. When they have had their fill the blue and scrub wrens takeover. Then during the day we might have a visit from an injured blackbird I rescued from a strawberry net a year earlier. Recent arrivals have been a pair of goldfinches and two grey shrike thrushes with their beautiful call. The birds have become very tame, particularly the sparrows and the wrens. There are no predators, and they have come to accept that we will not harm them. Although they are greedy and squabble over the food, they do have a sense of order. They sit on the pickets in a queue, and as each bird takes its food and flies away all the birds move up one picket towards the dish. Woe betide any bird that jumps the queue - the others will quickly deal with the intruder. It is good to have an orderliness about things - we know just where weare and where we stand. And in this great picture of creation the animals and birds, creatures that we may consider to have a low intelligence, also have an order of things. The fact that the common sparrow knows that it must take its turn otherwise chaos would result, shows just how man and the creatures of the earth are linked through our Creator. Even the words creature and Creator comes from the same Latin word CREARE, meaning to produce. The Bible has something to say about the common sparrow. We are told that not one of them will fall without our Father in Heaven knowing about it. The Scripture goes on to say that we are worth much more than sparrows. As we age and think back over our lives and what lies ahead, we are not to be apprehensive. God holds us in the palm of His hand. Each morning as I watch the sparrows take their turn at breakfast I can take heart from the assurance that God cares for me. He cares for you too.
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