Sarah and her friends had been watching a robin's nest this week. They were thrilled to watch the hatchlings be born. They couldn't wait everyday to go see the baby birds and watch their Mom care for them. Sadly, what they found on Friday sent them into action. They walk up to find the Mom Robin drowned and the nest broken in half floating in the creek. There are two babies hanging onto that half nest literally, for dear life. Sarah, without even blinking scooped them up and raced home with them. She built them a nest and began to feed them water with a dropper. She kept them safe and warm. Then she decided to tell me we had guests in the house. She wrote me this precious letter telling me what had happened and how she couldn't just stand there and watch those baby birds drown. She knew we couldn't keep them but we had to keep them alive until we found a home for them. Of course by now, Dr. Rachel is now involved in the feeding and constant "bird watching." I tell you, those two love God's creatures.
Anyway, our internet search began trying to find information about caring for them and where we could take them on Monday morning. And we began praying for these baby birds.
By Sunday afternoon, Sarah had been feeding them every hour (Pedialyte in a dropper). She was quite sleepy but she happened to look out of her bedroom window and saw a robin's nest with a Mom & Dad robin taking care of two baby birds. She is ecstatic! We think God has prepared a home for them. We get out Daddy's big ladder and Sarah takes a peek inside the nest. She knows this is the place for them. So she gets the hatchlings and gently places them inside the nest and we pray. We pray that the Mom & Dad robin will take care of them. And guess what? They are. They are feeding them, keeping them warm, protecting them. They are loving them like their own.
My neighbor saw us outside and knew all about the baby birds and said, "This is just like your family..." We both wiped a tear.
Look at what God has done. I told Sarah how proud I was of her and all her efforts to save these baby birds. She was relieved that they had been adopted. God had provided even for the smallest of His creatures. What a story! The teachable moments from the weekend are endless...
* loving someone enough to die for them to save them
* loving God's creatures
* how much we need our family
* how God created us to take care of our babies
* how that tiny, little hatching is a LIFE
* how God chooses our families
* how God takes the hard things and brings about good
* how adoption is so beautiful, even with baby birds
* how God cares for the birds of the field, how much more does He care for us?
I could go on and on, but I wanted to share this incredible story.
Blessings for our little nest to yours,
LT
