Well, I have found there are some advantages to being a “brown thumb.” I haven’t been able to keep many plants alive, but I’m learning that’s not such a bad thing. I had two pretty ferns in hanging baskets outside our front door last summer but they died sometime between when Noa was born and the winter. I never got around to taking them down (it was too cold to be outside long enough to do it) and so they are still hanging out there, all brown and dead. Recently, everytime we come to the front door a bird would fly out of one of the baskets so I had a hunch that maybe a nest was being built. Sure enough, last week there were itty bitty little eggs in that dead fern and this week there are 5 baby birds! They are sooo little and in the photo below its hard to tell where one stops and the other starts. Anyway, I just thought it was cool to think that the Lord used my laziness and failure to care for my plants to care for his little creations. And its exciting to me to hear their little chirps outside my door and be reminded that the Lord who cares for these seemingly insignificant baby birds cares for me and loves me.
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