A Downy’s Message
As we enter the eighth month of our journey with Lyme disease my 13 year old daughter drew this woodpecker and wrote these words:
" '…even the birds and animals have much they could teach thee…'( from Job 12: 7,8 ).
It is here told us in the Bible, as I have experienced— that birds are our spiritual teachers. They are God's messengers; angels hidden in delicate patterns of feathers, here to comfort the woeful spirit.
Every time that my mom faced an especially difficult or discouraging bump along the painful trail of having Lyme disease, the discouragement hit me too. And in EVERY one of those instances God brought us both comfort though his amazing nature world:
~ Near the beginning of the journey when situations seemed out of hand—THERE was a Belted Kingfisher ( and there's no pond around), and many other little birds that we don't usually see- just twenty feet ...
