"Where's your nest?"

You may have heard me talk before about a bird’s nest on top of a column on the front porch of our home. I noticed some years ago that a bird built a nest on top of the column, laid eggs, hatched them, and we enjoyed watching her feed the baby birds, seeing them grow, test their wings and fly away. We had that privilege again this year with the hatchlings flying away on Mother’s Day. And again this year, that was just the first batch.

You see each year—and again this year—within a week of that first batch hatching and flying away, another mother bird comes in, customizes the nest to her specifications, and lays her eggs. She hatches them, and raises them up until they fly away. We average three clutches of eggs hatched in that one nest each spring.

Rather than tear that nest down after the third hatching, I leave it up each year, providing the mother bird with a ready-made nest that needs just a little fixing up. It seems to me that’s how God treats us—giving us everything we need to be successful as we listen to life and make a life.