The Baby Bird in my Window Well

Yesterday (a few weeks months ago)  :)  a small baby bird managed to fall into my window well.  It was a sad looking little bird that kept making efforts to try to escape from the tall walls that trapped it.  It would fly at the walls and cry for help never to make it to the top of the window well.

Later I saw its mother come and stand by the edge of the window with a worm in her mouth trying to find a way to reach her baby bird who was stuck in the window well.  The mother's actions of trying to find a way to climb down the wall (which she could not) and the baby crying for help and making feeble efforts to try to fly up (he could only get about half way up before he fell back down into the window well) were saddening.

But isn't that how sometimes we act when we step outside our parent's authority.  We are safe when we listen to our parent's counsel and advice but when we step outside their authority there are dangers and traps we can easily fall into.  Just like the mother bird made crys to her baby and tried to help feed the baby and protect it, she could not when the baby left her protection and decided to find his own way.  In the same way our parents may plead for us to listen to their counsel and advice to "stay under their umbrella of protection" if we reject their authority and protection we are opening ourselves up to the dangers of the world.  How much more safe would the baby bird be if he had stayed with his mother and followed her, yet when he went on his own he fell.

How we sometimes are like this baby bird!  To each young person reading this blog: Stay under your parents' protection.  They truly love you and wants what is best for you!

PS in case you are all wondering the next day my Dad went to get the bird out of the well but it had already flown away. :)