What is more humble in all creation than the sparrow? When humans are not trying to shoo them away from our feeders for “serious” birds, or otherwise treating them like a nuisance, we tend to pay them little mind. The Bible uses the sparrow to make a point about God’s extravagant attention to even minor, inconsequential details–like sparrows. Sparrows are small, commonplace and nondescript. Or so we think. Until something happens that draws our attention to them in a new way. For me it was the snow and ice storm of February 2021 that grounded dozens of hungry birds in…
Tag: divine-love
#AdventWord #Watch
I regret that I have gotten too lazy to do the morning watch very often. In fact, I am usually up before dawn. But typically I’m nestled on the sofa, steaming cup of coffee at hand, checking the news and playing solitaire on my phone. I enjoy it. But that little morning ritual is not to be compared to “the morning watch,” which to me must be outdoors, preferably near water, watching the rebirth of the world–the return of color, the song of birds, fragrance of dew on soil and plants. This daily resurrection speaks to me always of the…

