On Friday after posting the blog, “All Will Be Well” I got this voicemail from a kindly neighbor who lives opposite, in one of the houses in the row that appeared in the sunrise video with the wonderful sign of the two birds.
Bethany (the town, incidentally, where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead) has never called me before.
What are the chances?
100% when it is our ‘Dad’ who writes the script and casts the actors!
The parakeet, not native to Minnesota, was obviously a pet that had escaped from it’s cage. It was now literally ‘free as a bird’
Green represents life and white represents holiness. How appropriate for this time when we celebrate the resurrection of the spotless lamb, our Savior, who broke out of the cage of mortality that all men are subject to, in order to be the first to fly free!
Tonight round the dinner table we sang Charles Wesley’s lines,
Soar we now where Christ has lead……Hallelujah
Follow our exalted head…….Hallelujah
Made like him like him we rise……Hallelujah
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies……Hallelujah!
Deuteronomy 19:15 says that every matter is established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. The third witness often relates to the timing of the matter. I believe this bird was sent as the third witness that:
“NOW Is The Time of God’s Favor” and “All Will Be Well.” for CHRIST IS RISEN indeed.
Hilary and I just recorded another song I received a few years ago, again, for this time. As we NOW prepare to rise up with him, the second verse goes,
You are the bird singing in the darkness. You are. Yes, You are.
You are the one rising up before us. You are. Yes, You are.
Again, I may have hit a bum chord in the last chorus, but spot the bird singing at the very end ……….perfectly on time : – )
Dear friends, please receive this today with our Resurrection Greetings,
for now as fellow members of the same body of Christ…….
You are here…. in our hearts, O so dear. Yes you are.