Colorado State Motto: Nil Sine Numine= “Nothing
without the Deity”
Do you
ever go out to do something righteous—but then find as soon as you start that the
Lord had a different plan for you all along?
The weather this evening has been beautiful. In an effort to take advantage of it, I went
to the hammock in the backyard to read my scriptures. I wasn’t sure where I was going to read, but
I had said a prayer that the Lord would help me find the right verses to give
me the guidance I needed. After my
prayer, it was very hard to concentrate—two Robins had gone absolutely berserk. They were squeaking like I didn’t know a
Robin could and acting very strange. They
kept teasing our dog Chester (a beagle)—landing right next to him and then
hopping away, almost but not quite getting caught. I had not realized those birds could be such
dare devils! Eventually the birds
succeeded in navigating Chester to the other end of our yard and they stopped. I was glad it was over, but after almost a
whole 2 seconds Chester came running back over to investigate something under a
tree in the back corner of our yard, and the whole ordeal started over again.
But I
caught on this time, I walked over to where Chester was looking (both him and
the birds were distracting each other) and I found a young bird frozen on the
ground. It was not a baby, but was
definitely younger. I put the dogs
inside, and then came back out with some gloves to rescue the bird. When I came back, all the birds were gone.
