‘Do not be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.’ Luke 12:7.
The little girl with her mother on the bus was about three years old. Her continuous lively chatter put a smile on everyone’s face. It was as if she was seeing everything for the first time and loving everything she saw.
Suddenly she looked up to the cloudless sky where a group of starlings were twisting and turning in their beautiful murmuration formation. The little girl pointed up excitedly. ‘Look Mum, there are a million birds up there and they’re making patterns in the sky.’
A million might have been an exaggeration but we all looked up and joined in her amazement as the birds swooped and spiralled upwards. We had seen the sight before but our adult eyes can lose the wonder of childhood. Many sights of nature can become ordinary because we have seen them all before. God has given us so many blessings in nature, birdsong, spring flowers or the first cry of a new born baby.
At creation God said that it was good, very good. May we have the eyes of the three year old and really see and rejoice. As Jesus said ‘Unless we become as little children ….’