my hen, stepping from her hidden
nest, in our kitchen garden.
In her clever secret place, her tenth
egg, still warm, had just been dropped.
Not sure of what to do, I picked up
every egg, counting them, then put them
down again. All were mine...
I blinked, I saw:
a mighty nest full of stars.
Excerpted from A Nest Full of Stars
by James Berry
Jesus was born and bundled up and put in a straw bed to keep warm.
So He came to nest with us like all the birds He once designed.
Straw sticking out of a manger and the King of Creation on top. Amazing.
Mary looked into the straw. Joseph looked and all the shepherds. What did they see? A baby? A poor child? The Father of the Stars?
The world sometimes looks into our nest and sells her contents short but Heaven looks and sees a mighty nest of stars and a mother who can spin straw into gold.
Proverbs 31:29 "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
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This is what I cling to as a mother - that what God sees (and shows me) about my children is all that really matters and all I really need to know about them. I loved this post. -K
ReplyDeleteSometimes all our children really need is a lot of love and shove in the right direction! I wish I could always keep them safe in "my nest".
ReplyDeleteLove it!