It is so easy to take God’s creatures for granted. I have been feeding the birds since I moved here. I remember how excited we were when we first put up the finch feeder and the first goldfinch appeared.
I never ever saw a tufted titmouse and now we get a steady stream of them every day. Very seldom did I see downy woodpeckers until I placed a suet feeder near the trunk of the large pine tree which can be viewed outside our living room window.
I never saw the white-breasted nuthatch who has become a regular visitor to our yard. It likes both the suet and the sunflower seed I put out.
And there are other visitors we get every day. How easy does it become to become jaded. And forget these are all creatures created from above and deserve our praise and wonder.
Somehow you need to restore this quality and see these birds again with true amazement. How do you see things as if it was the first time? I have no answers.
PS Thoreau in Walden said it much better: ‘Nothing is greater than to have an expectation of the dawn which will never forsake you even in our soundest sleep.’ I am not sure whether this is an exact quote but it is close.
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