I ate my breakfast in the silence of my campsite beside “Pilgrim”, my teardrop camper. In the distance, a bird alternated between pecking on the passenger window of my car and viewing itself in the side mirror. Then it flew to the tree beside me and sang for the longest time (see video).
In the quiet of sand dune solitude I relaxed, welcomed the bird’s presence, and felt its pleasure. I recalled a greeting card decades ago when I sought missing answers to the “unfixables” of life.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
by Joan Walsh Anglund
What song lyrics might we write, even within the context of “unfixables” and unanswered questions? Perhaps the bird’s song came out of what it saw in the mirror—its identity as one who is secure under the watchful eye of its Creator.
When we look into the mirror of how God sees us, we can begin to know the true nature of our identity—deeply loved and completely forgiven. Then, even when we don’t have the answer to life’s perplexities, we’ll still have a song with empowering lyrics like trust, transformation, freedom, salvation, influence, meaning, redemption…
The Treasure: Know the Source of joy and sing about what really matters.
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