Faith
The Bird
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by
Stephen A. Peterson
While walking through Woodland Park in Shawnee, Oklahoma on a hot April afternoon, Michelle notice a bird’s nest in one of the low lying trees. As she approached the nest and looked into it, she noticed a single speckled blue egg. She could also see a tiny hole appear on the side of the egg as the little bird struggled to free its body to the outside world. Then the little bird seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if the little bird had done all that it could do.
So Michelle decided that she was going to help the bird enter the world. She took a pair of scissors out of her backpack then began to cut through the shell matter in her attempt to free the little bird. Having helped the bird come into the world, Michelle expected the little bird to begin begging for food but it did not. She decided to wait a little longer for she just knew the little bird was going to beg for food. The little bird never did. For the little bird could not lift its head up. In fact, the little bird spent the remainder of its life unable to correctly lift up its head. It shortly died days after its entry into the world.
What Michelle did, in her haste and kindness towards the little bird, actually did more harm than good. One of the reasons birds and other shelled egg producing animals must be permitted to struggle out of their shells is that the struggle strengthens neck and pectoral muscles for holding their head up and eventually for flight.
Like birds, humankind sometimes needs to go through struggles to help strengthen us for our life’s missions and to help others as they go through similar struggles. If Almighty God allowed humankind to go through our lives without difficulties or obstacles, many would never come to the realization of God or that God even exists. Humankind would be crippled nor have any purpose and meaning in their lives. Humankind would not be as strong as it would be. Humankind could never be strong or fly high as the mighty birds.
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