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    Friday, March 28, 2025

    Psalm 63: 1-8

     

    1O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you;

    my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

    2So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

    3Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

    4So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

    5My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips

    6when I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;

    7for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.

    8My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

     

     

    I replenished the feeders this morning after allowing them to hang empty since the most recent snow melted. It always amazes me how quickly the birds respond. Within minutes, I had 10 jays and two woodpeckers, along with an array of finches, sparrows, blackbirds, and grackles. Where were they when the feeders were empty? I didn’t see a jay for weeks. The squirrels, slower to react, didn’t have a chance.

    I have pondered how I could best install a house suitable for downy woodpeckers further up in the tree. They are tiny compared with the redheads, but I love the beauty of their markings.

    Those who seem to know claim the birds descended from the dinosaurs. How could it be? Yet they have similar bone structures. How could one contemplate dinosaurs and birds and not believe in God? It is just as amazing, if not as panoramic, as the view from the top of Mount Washington. I once watched a juvenile delinquent, a teen involved in gangs and violence, climb atop a rock there, look east, all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. He spread his arms, turned around to look at all the world, and proclaimed the wonder of God.

    I have concluded the New Testament is correct in its diagnosis of the world’s problems. We have become a people with eyes which cannot see and ears which cannot hear.

    Americans like to whine and complain, gripe and moan, strike out at leader after leader in turn, arguing all the while they have not been fed and kept safe.

    Where or when in history was a nation better fed or safer than ours?

    Eyes which cannot see and ears which cannot hear.

    The birds know instantly when the providence of God becomes visible. They neither complain nor whine, but rather just come to the feast  in all their glory.

    So will I.

     

    Hymn of the day: Breathe. Online at Rossford UMC - Media.

     

    Rev. Lawrence Keeler