the little bird

henslow's sparrow (photo by dave patton)

say, if any of u blogspot bloggers out there have advice on how i can get this thing out of "centered" and onto "left margin" i'd appreciate it............i mean, there's a drop-down thingy for it; but i cannot seem to get it to work.

     back to business:  thanx for all the nice comments re: 'there goes the neighborhood' (previous blog post).......exactly what is it about nature that heals? and even transforms? check out the following (by a dude named john pulsford):

     "I was in the act of kneeling down before the Lord my God, when a little bird came and perched near my window, and thus preached to me: 'O thou grave man, look on me, and learn something, if not the deepest lesson, then a true one. Thy God made me, and the like of me; and if thou canst conceive it, loves me and cares for me. Thou studiest Him in great problems, which oppress and confound thee: thou losest sight of one half of His ways. Learn to see thy God not in great mysteries only, but in me also. His burden on me is light, His yoke on me is easy; but thou makest burdens and yokes for thyself which are very grievous to be borne. Things deep as Hell and high as Heaven thou considerest overmuch; but thou dost not 'consider the lilies' sufficiently. If thou couldst be as lily before God, for at least one hour in the twenty-four, it would do thee good: I mean, if thou couldst cease to will and to think, and be only. Consider, the lily is as really from God as thou art, and is a figure of something in Him -- the like of which should also be in thee. Thou longest to grow, but the lily grows without longing; yes, without even thinking or willing, it grows and is beautiful to both God and man."

     that sort of sums it up, you know? with all our large-brained technology, sophistication, culture, cleverness, etc etc etc..........why/how is it that we become increasingly angst-ridden and neurotic with each new invention?? why/how is it that there is a new mess to clean up behind each new invention? why/how does it seem like we're just digging ourselves deeper and deeper as we get smarter and smarter?

     folks tell me that it is God who gave us the big brains; and by God, we're supposed to put them to good use! i don't want to argue about that..........i've got the big-brain blues as much as anyone else......i don't want to sound even more hypocritical than i already do, y'understand..................................still, there's no denying human crises we see unfolding before us with each passing day............we can rationalize and intellectualize until the cows come home....................................bottom line though, is that we'll continue to unwittingly create personal and world-wide catastrophes until we drop our pride and arrogance, get down on our knees, and acknowledge Something bigger than us.............Something far beyond our capacities -- yet at the same time within us.............desiring to flow out, if we could only suspend our strategizing, dealmaking, and internal love affairs with self long enough -- and effectively enough -- for It to do so...............

it seems like such a great mystery............and to our outrageously large brains, it is! but somewhere within each of us humans, way down deep, it ain't no mystery.......it's Reality......any lil' bird can tell you that.