Our yard is one vast nursery. We have a cardinal nest, a robin nest, a chickadee nest, a catbird nest and a phoebe nest. There is a squirrel nest, a chipmunk nest and a rabbit nest. I’m sure there are more but those are the ones I know for sure. How grand it must have been on days five and six of creation week. Moses wrote, “So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’” What great joy it must have been for God to design such wonders.
The variety and extravagant use of color on the birds gives us a glimpse into the artistic mind of God. I have a friend who is a” bugologist.” He tells me there are thousands of kinds of bugs still to be discovered and named. I asked him if he could name a bug after me. “Sure,” he said. “We’ll find a really nasty looking fellow just for you.” That shouldn’t be difficult because we all have seen some really ugly bugs, which makes me wonder about God’s sense of humor especially since Genesis 1 closes with “God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.” But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I am sure those ugly male bugs find the ugly female counterpart to be stunningly beautiful.
Cecil Alexander said it so well when he wrote, “All things bright and beautiful.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on May 13, 2009
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