His Wings are Greater than the Storms of Life

I have the privilege of looking out at nature everyday where I live and hearing the songs of praise from a variety of birds, the croaking frogs and hooting owls at night. I see the monkeys running around, climbing the trees to grab the latest fruit growing and swinging from tree to tree on occasion, this warms my heart experiencing such incredible creation around me! Just to make things interesting, I also have a very active beehive in the corner of my house outside, so I see a swarm of bees out my window and can feel the buzz in my house sometimes when the hive is very active.

The Lord speaks to me very often in nature and yet it occurs the most frequently through birds! Currently, there is this beautiful monogamous bird called the violet backed starling, which I first saw about a year ago and once again, I am seeing it in my backyard this year (different place) and even where we are raising our beautiful children also. The male happens to be my favorite color too!!
I discovered that behind my house there are 2 old wooden fence posts and two sets of these bird pairs had laid eggs inside of them about two feet below. One currently has three unhatched eggs, I often see the mom bird sitting on the eggs, while the other had 3 eggs hatched, although there are only two remaining. Each day I have watched as the birds are growing, no feathers yet. I was thinking how beautifully committed these parents are as I watch them both swoop onto the wooden post, then go 2 feet below to feed the babies. I was also thinking what a big feat it will be for the babies as their first independent task will be to climb 2 feet up the pole to experience a whole new landscape and life ahead of them.
Recently, we have also had much rain, which is a huge blessing in our drought conditions and I was wondering how these little ones are alive when we have had the storms with serious down-pouring rain?! So, as it was raining, not extremely hard, I thought I would go and take a peek at these baby birds. The scene I saw still brings me to tears…

Mama bird

The mama bird was nesting on top of them with her one wing spread out so wide there was not even a tiny crack of space for the birds to get wet. Wow!!! I really needed to see that!! Have you ever felt like you were helpless and so dependent, needing so much to be protected, kept warm and even at times fed? The only effort these little birds make is to open their mouths and receive the goodness of food being placed in their mouth, otherwise, there is not a care in the world, their parents have got them!

This picture was exactly what God wanted to remind me of, if this mama bird does this for her babies, how much more does Papa God do this for us, he feeds the birds of the air, how

much more as His sons and daughters will He care for us? All I get to do is choose to gaze at Him, trusting He is enough and receive His goodness and love!

I could picture myself as one of these sweet little dependent birds, which so reminded of Psalms 91! Imagine yourself there, under the shadow of the Almighty who safely protects you, these are only a few of the promises He makes to us:

“His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you. You are hidden in the strength of God Most High. His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm. When we live our lives within the shadow of the God Most high, our secret Hiding Place, we will always be shielded from harm. Because you have delighted in me as my great lover, I will greatly protect you. I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face! I will answer your cry for help everytime you pray, and you will find and feel my presence. Even in your time of pressure and trouble. I will be your glorious Hero and give you a feast! You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you. For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation”