--CHRIST IS IN CONTROL~~

~~"And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good."
---(Genesis 1:31 / KJV)

--I HAD an overgrown shrub bed and got some help from a very knowledgeable man named Bob Chandler. As he was finishing up, he pointed to the telephone lines that run along the east edge of my property, adjoining a county bird sanctuary. "You've got bluebirds!" he said.
--I looked up and saw mourning doves, pigeons, and two small chubby birds I didn't recognize. At that moment, the two little ones took off and I saw how they got their name. In flight their color is a brilliant, deep blue.

Bluebirds have returned to many areas, but Bob explained that development had made bluebirds rare in our neighborhood because they can't find places to build their nests. So he and several other neighbors were setting up bluebird houses on their properties--little boxlike wooden houses on tall poles set in the ground. "They like to rest near the fields," Bob said. "That's where they get their food."

The next day Bob surprised me with a bluebird house and a long pole, which he set up along my driveway, looking out on the fields. One morning when I took out my dogs, I saw a bluebird sitting on top of the house, looking as if it owned it.

A few times I saw a bluebird with a twig in its beak entering the small hold in the front, and I assumed it was building a nest. Then one morning as I was passing by, I heard the sound of chirping inside the house. Little ones! And a few days later I looked up at the telephone wire and saw not one, not two, but four bluebirds. I was so excited that I called Bob to tell him the good news.

"That's great!" he said. "You see, all they needed was a little help."

He's right. So many of God's creatures are having a hard time these days because they have to fit in with our way of life. But the story doesn't have to have a sad ending. As Bob says, all they need is a little help.

--"IN CONTROL" (lyrics) //Hillsong Worship // <https://youtu.be/VbvLtM_167k>
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