February 25, 2023

Have you ever seen a bird build a nest for its chicks?  It is an intricate process that includes foraging, sorting, weaving, and shaping.  Birds demonstrate great patience and adaptability in constructing, one item at a time, these masterpieces!  I wonder if this is a fitting metaphor for the human soul.  We spend a lifetime gathering memories, ideas, and experiences that, when arranged intentionally, just might form a structure capable of receiving new life.  Let’s therefore slow down during these next forty days and remember how much our Lord respected birds (Mt 6:26).  Let’s be little like a bird and work diligently like a bird.  Let’s allow all of our interior twigs and straw and otherwise refuse to become a place where our beloved may come and dwell (Jn 15:4).  Let’s build this nest, let’s learn to fly!  Ave Crux, Spes Unica!