Matthew 6:25-27

^“25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? ²⁷ Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?”

                This verse took on new meaning to me this morning as I was shoveling out from the snowstorm that fell upon our region last night.  Because I am a huge kid at heart and get completely caught up in snow storms, I was constantly looking outside last night to check the weather conditions, hoping for a huge pile of snow this morning when I awoke. In my snooping throughout the evening, I saw the storm throw pretty much everything Mother Nature had on our area. I saw rain, sleet, snow, heard large gusts of wind, I saw the snow falling in three different directions all within the same hour.  As if all that wasn’t enough I experienced the rare “THUNDERSNOW” as channel 6 news dubbed it, thunder during a snow storm. All in all it was a pretty intense storm. 

                Then this morning came the great excavation of my cars. As I shoveled the sun came out and I began to hear birds chirping. I have no idea why it took me till I was 29 to ask this question but I wondered how do the birds that stay north for the winter survive the harsh colds, and intense storms that the northeast is known for.  The only thing that could come to mind was Matthew 6:25-27. I have no idea how the birds survive, but I do know that God takes care of them, and if God takes care of them how much more will he take care of us. Yet another reminder to me that God has promised to take care of me and that I have no need to let worry in, because he will take care of me.