Sabbath Music - A Song and a Poem

One of my favorite things to do on Shabbat is to watch birds.  Sometimes I watch them from my back porch as they visit Golden Pond and the birdfeeders.  Sometimes I watch them with hubby on our photo drives around the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge.

One thing I've noticed is that you never see a skinny, starving bird.  I watch my backyard birds catch bugs, and watch the shore birds catch fish.  I'm always reminded of this verse (Matthew 6:26):

 Look at the birds flying about! 

They neither plant nor harvest, nor do they gather food into barns;

 yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.

Aren’t you worth more than they are?

I love meditating on how God always meets our needs.  My journal has pages and pages of answered prayers and fulfilled needs.  Any time my faith grows a bit weak, all I have to do is read my prayer journal. 

Said the Robin to the Sparrow:

"I should really like to know

Why these anxious human beings

Rush about and worry so."

Said the Sparrow to the Robin:

"Friend, I think that it must be,

That they have no Heavenly Father,

Such as cares for you and me."

~ Elizabeth Cheney ~

My heart is heavy for the suffering victims of Hurricane Harvey.  Let's pray for them, and do what we can to help meet their needs.  Just like God sometimes uses people to put out bird feeders, He sometimes moves on the hearts of His people to provide for others.  We all can do something to help.

Perhaps you know someone who's been affected by the hurricane .  This song may be of great comfort to them. The song has the lyrics, and is performed by Lauryn Hill and Tanya Blount: His Eye Is On The Sparrow

As you listen to the song, pray for those in Texas and Louisiana and thank God for all the many things He's provided for you this past week.


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Sabbath Music - His Eye is on the Sparrow

We're always busy every day, and so I look forward to His Sabbath.  It's His time -- set apart for us to be still and focus on Him.  I treasure it, and I hope you do, Gail-Friends.

This poem from my daily devotional, Streams in the Desert so beautiful and true.  I hope it blesses you.

Last night I heard a robin singing in the rain,
And the raindrop's patter made a sweet refrain,
Making all the sweeter the music of the strain.

So, I thought, when trouble comes, as trouble will,
Why should I stop singing? Just beyond the hill
It may be that sunshine floods the green world still.

He who faces the trouble with a heart of cheer
Makes the burden lighter. If there falls a tear,
Sweeter is the cadence in the song we hear.

I have learned your lesson, bird with dappled wing,
Listening to your music with its lilt of spring
When the storm-cloud darkens, then's the TIME to sing.
--Eben E. Rexford 

I love to sit on my back porch on the Sabbath, just being still and watching the birds visiting my feeders and birdbaths.  This song, His Eye Is On The Sparrow by pianist Dino Kartsonakis, is perfect for the Sabbath.  It has the music and lyrics, with birds singing in the background.  After you listen, find the version by Ethel Waters.  Nobody sings it like she does.  

Have a blessed, worship-full, peace-full and rest-full Sabbath, Gail-Friends.

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