day twelve: the birds

It only took us about five minutes. This afternoon we put the seed in the bird feeder, took it outside, and hung it on a limb.

Simple. Quick. Easy.

Looking down the sidewalk in front of our house at our new birdfeeder.

Hopefully our house won't turn into this. Considering how tiny our feeder is, I doubt it will.

There's not much to today's post, because there wasn't much to today's project. But that doesn't mean that what we did wasn't important.

As we were hanging the birdfeeder, I thought of one of Jesus' sayings in the Sermon on the Mount:
"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 of more value than they?" (Mt 6:26)

Ultimately, Jesus is teaching about God's provision, and therefore that we need not worry. But it's a reminder that God cares not only about us as humans, but about all of Creation.

God feeds even the birds out of love for the Creation. Maybe we should do the same.