Ran Out of Birdseed

I ran out of birdseed yesterday. Yet I knew "Sam" would be fine until I got to the store today. This morning she was pacing and bobbing her head though letting me know she was hungry. Ok, ok, I thought, as I wandered the kitchen looking for her something to snack on until I could buy her some seed. Now, Sam is a cockatiel, a small bird who often eats people food as a supplement to her seed. I usually share my apples with her when I have an apple and it just so happened this morning there was an apple in the pantry. Perfect I thought, this will tide her over, she loves apples. I cut up a whole apple, quartered it, cleaned out her seed bowl and filled it with the apple pieces.

She RAN from her food bowl! She cowered on the opposite side of her cage and looked at her food bowl like there was a monster in it! Try as I might to disuade her from her fear she would not touch the apple pieces in her bowl. She didn't recognize it as food.

I looked at her in amazement and wondered if I let things go on; if she would starve herself out of fear of the unknown. She was "blinded" to the fact that there was food set right before her. And then I wondered; when do I miss the fact that there is food/blessing/provision set right before me? How often have I been scared away from the blessing because I didn't recognize the form it had taken? Lord open our eyes that we may see the green pastures and the table you have set before us in the presense of our enemies (Ps 23).