Hang On!

As I watched out the back door I noticed her.  She stood nervously with a mouth full of twigs and dried grass, so I watched to see where she might be planning to start her family.  She jumped up on the grill and was out of sight for a few minutes but alas she jumped up on the porch rail and was gone again.  As soon as she was gone I went out to inspect her work and found that she had tried to make a nest on the grill where there was was large crack and all of her work had fallen in a pile on the floor.  Laughing, I went in to tell Larry about our misguided feathered friend. In the next few days we noticed the flurry of activity and again the pile of twigs and dried grass sitting under the place she tried hopelessly to build a nest.  Thinking our friend was a freak of nature, we watched her work.

One day Larry looked in the grill and discovered that our industrious little bird had gathered enough twigs and dry grass to fill the entire grill on the inside.  As we observed her handy work we found that in the middle of her grand display was a perfectly formed nest.

Sometimes as we observe God we can't see that our prayers are being answered and we plead again and again for his attention to our problem.  All we can see is a pile of twigs heaped on the floor. But unbeknownst to us he is working diligently to answer our prayer in his own time and way.

Just when we think, all is lost, we open up a new chapter and find that Our Father has been working all the time and has built us a mansion instead of just a nest.  He has answered more than we could think or ask.

The bible tells us that he is able to do immeasurably more than we can even comprehend.

“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”
Ephesians 3:17-20 NIV

Father God you are so good!  Praise your Holy Name!

 Our new neighbor is still working away and we expect her eggs will be laid any day now.  May her children know how much they are loved as we, God's children, know how much we are loved!