7.21-It is now day 133 of the pandemic.

7.21-

It is now day 115 of the pandemic. We have watched on our televisions a black man go from very alive to dead in an eight minute video while a policeman relaxed and watched himself be filmed.

We have seen Americans of all races and colors go to the streets in protest to say, "We don't want to be this kind of country."

Some of us react all this by deciding to not see, feel and love anymore. We wander about into various kinds of unproductive activities, brain dead television, lukewarm religious activities, more treadmill travel, more shopping for things we don't need to impress the people we don't like.

I struggle with these things and my friends tell me that they do also. If you are one of these I remind you to not worry.

Yesterday I saw three birds, a tiny sparrow, a elegant red cardinal, a black bird and all were pointing me to get back to thinking about God.

He will provide. He provides grace to all of us who seek it. And breath and water and food.

A few days ago I saw a blue bird who had gotten killed in a parking lot. Some other birds were looking at it. God created the Milky way and much more, but He knows about that bird that died. He knows about what we need.

Let's take some time today to see, feel and love. Connect to the God who created this beautiful world and the birds in it and allow Him to take away all our worries. He will give us an alertness to the needs of those we love who are around us. He will pick up our spirits and give us a good day.

Matthew 6.

²⁵ “For this reason I say to you, ^[n]do not be worried about your ^[o]life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the ^[p]air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? ²⁷ And who of you by being worried can add a single ^[q]hour to his ^[r]life? ²⁸ And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, ²⁹ yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! ³¹ Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ ³² For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But ^[s]seek first ^[t]His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be ^[u]added to you.

³⁴ “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will ^[v]care for itself. ^[w]Each day has enough trouble of its own.