God's
Wings
An article in National Geographic
several years ago provided a penetrating picture of God's wings...
After a forest fire in
Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight,
he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he struck it, three tiny chicks
scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware
of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree, and
had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke
would rise.
She could have flown to safety but
had refused to abandon her babies. When the blaze had arrived and the heat had
singed her small body, the mother had remained steadfast. Because she had been
willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.