Gardens along the way...38...bird nests...

 Gardens along the way...38...bird nests...

The trees are mostly bare, arms  reaching nakedly toward the sky, some twisted and gnarled, others weeping...it is fun to see that variety of limb growth patterns against the blue or gray of the sky. Undressed for the winter months, they look stark and skinny, cold and bare...but many hold the remnants of homes built by their feathered spring friends...

Homes of twigs, hair, leaves, lined with downy feathers..balanced meticulously on forked branches or woven amongst the tiny limbs...some the size of the kitchen table down to a teacup...

Those homes, who in the spring,  are teeming with life, now sit empty and forlorn, subject to the winter storms...

Looking up the word, “bird”, there are over 125 references, not counting the references to named birds...from Genesis to Revelation...

They are referenced doing so many things...feeding, proclaiming, warning, eating, caring, etc....

Those nests are a reminder to me how much God cares for me...a home, a place...care, worth...even in the stark times, He is there...providing, loving...He knows the need of the bird and how much more for us...we who are created in his image...

Thank YOU....

So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

Genesis 1:21-22

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Genesis 8:6-12

Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

Genesis 8:17 

“‘If the offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon.

Leviticus 1:14

He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.

Psalm 78:27

The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 104:12 

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.

Matthew 3:16

26 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

I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.

Psalm 50:11 

24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!

Luke 12:24

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Luke 9:58