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TITLE: Mr. Sparrow's Song | Previous Challenge Entry
By Jennifer Champion
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For Mr. Sparrow, it just so happened that one morning he awoke in pain and could not fly. For the Otter family, it is lame paws that have afflicted them. So, it seems with the Fox family, it became lame hindquarters. For each animal, it is different. Those suffering with such maladies are considered outcasts by the non-afflicted animals.
Today Felix is hungry and cannot fly to get sustenance. He looks sorrowfully up to the sky. It is bright blue and off in the distance is a white fluffy cloud. Felix hopes the cloud will bring rain because he is thirsty. The cloud slowly makes its way across the sky, getting bigger and bigger, until finally it is over Felix’s nest casting a shadow.
Felix looks at the cloud and says, “Oh God, thank you for this cloud. It has given me shade from the sun. Now if it will only give me rain for my thirst.”
Soon, raindrops begin to fall so Felix opens his tiny beak to catch them. After a while, the cloud moves on and disappears.
Felix looks up to the sky again and speaks, “Oh God, thank you for the rain. Now, if you will only give me a small piece of bread to satisfy my hunger.”
As Felix sits in his nest, he hears Mr. and Mrs. Finch arguing. It seems they are fighting over a fat earthworm. It is not too much longer that Mrs. Finch takes to the air with the long brown worm dangling from her beak. Just as she approaches the air over Felix’s nest, the sun makes her sneeze, and she drops the worm. Down it falls right towards Felix’s home. Mrs. Finch is unable to catch it before it lands in front of Felix’s already gaping mouth. Felix eats the worm quickly and watches the angry Mrs. Finch fly back home.
With a full belly, Felix, looks up to the sky again and says, “Oh, God, thank you for the fat worm. I am full and well-watered. You take such good care of me. I never have to worry about anything because you are handling it all.”
The pain in the small bird’s wing intensifies as the evening breeze blows in from the north. He shudders. He thinks about his sweet Jane Sparrow who just last month died. She too, had a lame wing. Since no one knows the cause of the illness, her burial in the floor of the woods was lonely. Only Felix was there. The other critters were afraid to come for fear they too would catch the disease.
Felix shudders again; the temperature is dropping. He looks to the navy blue sky dotted by tiny white stars and says, “Oh, God, thank you for the beauty of the night. It is cold though and I am hurting. Please send warmth so I can rest.”
An hour later, with his head nestled in his wing, Felix feels something on his body. He opens his eyes. It is a paper that landed on top of his nest. It creates a barrier between him and the cold breeze blowing. With his head peaking out from the edge of paper, he looks up to the sky and in the night air begins to sing a song of praise to God, his creator and sustainer.
Nothing surprises God because He is in complete control. Mr. Sparrow knows this so let us never forget it too.
“Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” (Matthew 6:25-34 ESV)
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