One of my friends recently shared few pictures with me. The pictures were real and very rare. A tailor bird seems to have build a nest in his backyard and my friend took pictures of them.
Attached pictures display the amazing skill a tailor bird has used in creating its beautiful nest.
Few facts that still keeps me pondering is that
1. Why did the tailor bird choose the backyard grill to make its nest?
2. Why did it take a big leave and keep it on the grill hanging?
3. If it kept it hanging there does this bird have a mind like us to think of the architecture, the limit of weight that the leave can take or count the number of days this leaf will remain green and provide shelter to its babies?
Isn’t it surprising to see the tailor bird building its nest so skillfully without any error or flaws? Isn’t there some deep insight in this? These points encouraged me to do a detail study on tailor bird.
This tailor bird is typically found in open woodland, scrub and gardens. Tailorbirds get their name from the way their nest is constructed. The edges of a large leaf are pierced and sewn together with plant fiber or spider’s web to make a cradle in which the actual grass nest is built. The Common Tailorbird builds its nest in a shrub and lays 3–5 eggs. If we try analyzing it more we will find that the tailor bird selects one the freshest leaves which is broad and big and with its beak joins both the edges of the leaf and stitches them? Who taught her stitching? Again it uses plant fiber which is extracted from leaves, leaf nerves … Can we imagine how much effort will it take for a small little tailor bird with one long beak and two thin legs to hold a plant and extract its fiber? The bird does this all for the comfort of the young ones it is about to give birth to.
Once it joins both the edges it now puts in cotton, leaves and other stuffs into this woven leaf and makes a cushion on which now it lays its eggs. Wow that’s just amazing how well is this mother bird caring for its young ones. Green leaf to keep its nest fresh, cool and natural. protecting from scotching sun rays and on top of it cushion for its baby’s comfort.
Again my thought went on the baby which you see on the picture, with great ease its sleeping in the nest its mother has created for it. The baby doesn’t bother weather the leaf is plucked out from the plant and it will dry in just few days. The baby is neither concerned whether the stitches will break and it will fall down. All it is doing is simply keeping its eyes closed and with one faith that its mom has built a fantastic nest for it to safely grow. It is least concerned of the hard times it is about to have in just few days, it doesn’t even care of the hard nail wires on the boundary wall below it. What if the nest breaks and it falls on this sharp nail?
Now that’s what faith all about is. Forgetting about the conditions around us and trusting on our father completely.
Just as what the baby tailor bird did, what we need to do is hope for the best and believes in our father in heaven that whatever he does is simply the best. Just as the tailor bird has skillfully built a cushion based nest for its baby our father in heaven has build a cushion based plan and future for us with his angels protecting us from all tough times and scotching trials and temptations.
Our father has woven both the edges of our future, the beginning and the end skillfully such that the creation is nothing less than “Perfection”.
Its all that we need to do is not worry much and get scared looking at the surrounding around us. The father above is there to worry for it as bible says in Luke 12:7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.,
If our Father in heaven is so confident in His ways for us, why should we then worry? Lets keep our faith anchored on Him and look forward for things that is not seen.
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