7-3-2023
The Hummingbird
Admittedly the hummingbird is a prime example of God’s creation at its finest. There are about 320 species of the Trochilidae family, with only 12 species found in the United States and Canada. They are small weighing slightly more than 1.2 ounce and beat their wings at an average rate 10 – 80 beats per second (depending on size). All hummingbirds are small, and many are minute (my-knute).
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In my neighborhood I have seen very few hummingbirds, yet it is common to see hummingbird-moths in the wee evening hours 7 – 8 pm doing what hummingbirds do.
Let me address briefly my thoughts on hummingbirds. I see them as somewhat hyperactive as they continuously hover around flowers, sticking their long skinny beaks inside to retrieve nectar. That’s a lot of activity without seeming to go anywhere, yet just as quickly they zip off to flowers elsewhere.
I don’t know the lifespan of hummingbirds but I get dizzy just thinking of how many times they beat those wings over their lifetime.
As I watch various people moving around non-stop from before daybreak until well after dusk I wonder if they had been hummingbirds in another life (just kidding)?
Which brings me to the real heart of this story, when we as Christians become too busy doing “stuff” for God we quite often miss the mark on what it means to tell others that God loves them, just the way they are.
Just think of it, God created EVERYTHING for a reason, and that is to draw creation to Him. Although we don’t understand why we have spiders, snakes, insects and bugs of every type, size and shape, they all serve an important part of God’s plan for creation.
In the bible we read of religious leaders striving to insure that everyone obey the letter of the law, first of God, of Moses and of Abraham. Assuming one could do that every day of their life (they can’t) there is really one thing that could prevent you from entering the pearly gates, and that is not believing that Jesus is who he said he is or that he came to do God’s will to save mankind from sin.
Something to think about. – RTM
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