In recent days, much of our life as we have known it has changed, and we have entered a new season. A season of waiting, wondering, and resting. Or perhaps a season of hardship, sorrow, and anxiety. During this time of the pandemic, and racial, civil, and political tensions, when anxieties are high, headlines call out for our undivided attention. Because changes to daily life presents challenges, it is easy to drown in a human perspective of this season in time.
Yet, Scripture uses ordinary things in life to reveal God’s character and our treasure. God’s Word gives us eternal hope and purpose. Listen to what Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:26: “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they?” Our family has had the joy of watching a family of mourning doves right by our front door for two consecutive springs now. We watched the pair build their nest, sit on the nest, and feed their young. We watched as they saw their babies out of the nest and learned to fly from the ground to branches.
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