Come Fly With Me

When baby birds first learn to fly, parent birds will keep the fledgling's food a little further from the nest each feeding. If a young bird wants the nourishment, they must figure out a way to get to the food. Most of the time this takes many hard falls to the ground or falls to a different branch. The bird must then hop back to the nest for safety. The process repeats itself for each feeding thereafter and, eventually, baby birds will discover their wings, fall less and less, and finally learn to fly.

Learning to fly is an extremely arduous task. It has been compared to human jogging times ten!1

I think our lives are very much like baby birds learning to fly. 

You see, we all have a longing in our souls to find nourishment.We try all kinds of things to try to find that pleasure or to try to fill that empty space. Usually, whatever we find only brings satisfaction temporarily and we experience that same longing again. 

What is awesome is that we have a heavenly Father, much like a fledgling's parent. Our heavenly Father holds the nourishment to fill that empty space. He wants us to take a chance, move away from our nest of comfort, and seek Him. Seek our Father for that life-giving food. 

This blog was created in part to carry you on my journey of learning to spread my wings and fly in dependence upon God to fill me. Just like like a baby bird learning, my struggles in learning to seek Him are difficult. I will often fall down, realize my need for help, get back up and start over. Sometimes to do the very same thing I just did.

But what I do know is that I'm growing. It gets easier and easier the more I practice trusting Him. God promises,"and those who seek me find me. My fruit is better than fine gold." (Prv 8:17,19)

If you happen upon my blog, hopefully I can inspire you or at least make you smile.You will get to hear some about my little birds who are living in my nest and our everyday life on Wren's Way. 

Let's do life together and learn not only to fly, but also to "put our hope in the Lord, and soar on wings like eagles." (Is 40:31). Then, one day when our Father calls us home we can say like the old gospel song,

     I'll fly away, Oh Glory

     I'll fly away;

    When I die Hallelujah, by and by

    I'll fly away.2

You, like me, were made to soar. Come fly with me.

1 Author unknown, "How do Birds Learn How to Fly?," wisegeek.org (accessed May 30, 2013), adapted.
2 Brumley, Albert E., "I'll Fly Away," bluegrasslyrics.com (accessed May 30, 2013), adapted.
All scripture quotations are from the New International Version.