Father Bird, Mother Bird: A God Who Takes Us Under His Wing. “First this: God created the heavens and the earth – all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.” (Genesis 1:1-2, MSG). “How precious is …
Thorn Birds: Meditation. “No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as, the curse is found.” (Joy to the World, Isaac Watts) Many years ago in Falls Church, Virginia, …
The Bird in the Mist. Before everything When emptiness was waiting to be filled, and Nothingness was silent in the formless deep, The Spirit of God flutters over the thick eggshell of the watery abyss. A songbird hovering over her brood to come, God waits until the right moment to sing a universe into being …