The pecking bird ( long reflection)
Woke up this Sunday morning at 10 am from the sound of a pecking sparrow at our window. The sound was annoying. It was consistent. I never had this happen so I never expected the sound to be that loud from such a tiny bird. ...

I’m a person who takes things like this and immediately thinks.... hmmm what is Jesus trying to communicate to me through this little bird? Why? Because I believe nothing happens by accident. So I looked up why is this bird doing that and apparently birds get territorial when. ..

they are nesting and when they see other birds in their area they get feisty and start fighting it. Funny thing is in this case this little birdie is fighting his own reflection. Nice. I immediately heard the Lord say how often do we do that? We peck at our own reflection. ...

We peck at the things that don’t exist anywhere but in our own heads. The reality is our biggest battles are inside our own heads. We fight our shortcomings, mistakes, hurts, doubts, feelings, image, people. You name it, it’s a thought or another that crosses our mind....

All day long we peck and peck at a window or our own reflection thinking it’s the outside world we are fighting against. It’s funny that the Bible talks about who we are in Christ, who we should be, who God made us to be and who we should live to be. Yet we don’t believe it. .

We just know about it. I know that because I do that. I can list the things I think of myself that I’m pretty sure are the opposite of what God thinks that I am. I literally sat on the steps watching this bird peck himself silly for hours. I started crying because I realized..

what God is trying to remind me of today. The world around me is open, wild, full of things I’m looking for, asking for, praying for. God is in me, watching over me, protecting me. But I’m over her pecking at my own reflection of what is wrong with me and my own faults. ...