A Story About a Little Bird and a Loving Mother

It was about the 4^th of July

On a hot summer day.

I saw a little bird on the ground.

Not so unusual, I thought

The little Robin probably fell from its nest.

It was then that I noticed

What must have been its Mother.

Patiently waiting for me

To yield my position

As she held a bug for the little one.

Others came to watch.

The Mother seeing we were not

Quick to leave.

Carefully came within feet of us all

And fed the little bird.

Something was clearly wrong

with the little bird.

It could not fly,

And as a few days went by,

it could hardly walk.

Stranded there in the grass

the one thing the little bird did not lack

Was the care of its Mother.

Often she came with food!

She did not give up hope.

Then one day

As I looked to see,

The little bird

Did not move.

I think,

As I ponder this

Sequence,

How God loves us

Even more.

Even when we

Fall from the nest ---

Or jump---

He cares for us!!!

Billy Reese Masten

07/08/11