COVER YOU WITH FEATHERS INSPIRATIONAL

"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I have read this story many times,
it touches me each and every time...




COVER YOU WITH FEATHERS

*An article in National Geographic several years ago
provided an interesting picture of God's wings.
After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park,
forest rangers began their trek up a
mountain to assess the inferno's damage.

One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes,
perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree.
Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight,
he knocked over the bird with a stick.
When he gently struck it,
three tiny chicks scurried from under their
dead mother's wings.

The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster,
had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and
had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing
that the toxic smoke would rise.
She could have flown to safety but
had refused to abandon her babies.

Then the blaze had arrived and the heat
had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast.
Because she had been willing to die,
so those under the cover of her wings would live.


"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will
find refuge." (Psalm 91:4)




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