2/24/08
I have two bird houses in my front yard which I placed there hoping to attract
blue birds to nest. Each year I am pleased at about this time to see blue birds
come and begin surveying the situation and I hope they move in. Sometimes
however sparrows come and move in before the blue birds can set up housekeeping.
Now I don’t go destroy their nests and try to run them off, but I really wanted blue
birds. They are prettier and somehow it just sounds more acceptable to have blue birds
nesting in my front yard than to have sparrows. As I think about this, the question
arises as to why this should be so. Why shouldn’t I be just as happy to have sparrows?
The fact is there is probably no good reason except to for the reasons
I noted before, the blue birds are prettier.
Actually, America has a sort of a “blue bird” test they put us all through.
If we are a little overweight, we don’t pass it. If we our hair is not fixed right
or if we don’t have healthy tanned looking skin, or if we don’t drive nice
cars or wear nice clothes, we are considered less desirable. We are Sparrows. In
God’s word, he mentioned watching over the sparrows and to my knowledge says
not one word about blue birds. Maybe being a sparrow isn’t so bad after all.
Bob