Wednesday, August 22, 2018

BIRDS

The clouds are my family.  
When you cannot find me,
it is because my sisters
and brothers have called me.
We are singing circles of prayers about the earth...

~James McGrath (b.1928), "Bird," written in the 1970s, published in Dreaming Invisible Voices, 2009 




Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'

Job 38:41
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Psalm 50:11
I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

Psalm 104:27
All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

Psalm 104:28
When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Psalm 147:9
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

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