His Eye Is On The Sparrow . . .

and I know He watches me.




"Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Mathew 6:26

I have had a tendency to worry the past week or so . . . ever since my "vacationing mind" had to come back to reality. I am not worried about food (unless maybe the excess I consumed while at home, and the extra poundage it left me with.) More so my worries have to do with homeschooling a teenager . . . planning a wedding (which in itself means letting go of another one of my birds) . . . .Teddi's surgery coming at the end of the month, along with smoothing the path for speech therapy for her with the school system, tricky . . . and my oldest bird, Bryce, in Spokane, who was under the weather this past week. Did I mention Bryan was gone for four days which meant little man, Brogie (who is a daddy's boy), was extra needy? To top it all off, I am 95% sure that I am suffering from adult ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) . . . SERIOUSLY. That is a post in and of itself, but explains why "normal life" seems hard, and stressful life is seeming to push me to the brink. I am trying to get brave enough to schedule a doctor's appointment this week . . . There now, haven't I just gone and laid it all out?

This was going to be a simple little post about sparrows--the birds that I love. I guess God had more in mind . . .

Three times today He has put this sparrow passage in my path. See how He takes care of the details? He knows that if I have ADD, I definitely need to see things more than once . . . three times, I say. THREE! It's not funny, but it is . . .

God is watching me. HE knows when I am worried, HE knows when I am having a hard time, HE knows when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm pushed to my limit. It is then, that He steps in and gives me a verse to remind me not to worry, but to trust HIM for all that I need.

I took the picture above while we were in China. (It's a Chinese sparrow--bet you couldn't tell.) The picture is to remind me of God's marvelous watchcare over my baby bird during the long months we waited to bring her home. God watches over me in this very same way. He watches over my friend Bonnie, a cancer survivor, in the very same way. He watches over my dear friends who wait faithfully to bring their daughters home, even as He watches over their sweet girls as they wait . . . Vivi Jo, Candace Le and Grace in China, and precious Katie in Mongolia. He watches over those who mourn. . . who are weak . . . who are sick . . . who are lonely. . . who are afraid. He watches over those who are fighting battles we don't even know about. He watches, and He cares. . .

"His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me."

Blessings from my believing nest ~

Tina