Kamikaze Flight Paths

 

Another bird bangs into the window. Sort of gently; not hard enough to break a neck and so it flies into a bush to recover.

We put stickers on the windows, silhouettes of raptors. Scary predators for the blue tits and robins. Yet still they fly into, and bounce off the windows. Occasionally, they hit too hard, and we find them dead on the flower bed, on the path.

We think we see the way forward in life. Sometimes, the Lord gives us warning signs that actually, that is not a safe way to go. Occasionally he may even allow things which frighten us into changing our direction.

But we, with our free choice and often rebellious spirits, sometimes continue on the dangerous way, undeterred by the warning signs. We may just take a knock, surrender our pride and embrace humility and acquire a more teachable spirit. Sometimes it doesn’t end as well as that.

Open my eyes today, Lord, to perceive any warning signs you are giving me. Open my ears to hear your words, ‘This is the way; walk in it’, and to obey with humility, confident in you. (And keep the birds from their kamikaze flight paths into our windows!)