How Does The Bird Know?
June 4, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Having read yesterday’s Daily Reflections
“Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. I was outside, praying for willingness, when I raised my eyes and saw a huge bird rising up in the sky. I watched it suddenly give itself up to the powerful air currents of the mountains. Swept along, swooping and soaring, the bird did things seemingly impossible for mortal birds to do. It was an inspiring example of a fellow creature ‘letting go’ to a power greater than itself. I realized that if the bird ‘took back his will’ and tried to fly with less trust, on its power alone, it would spoil its apparent free flight. That insight granted me the willingness to pray the Seventh Step prayer.”
And since I had an elementary knowledge of God and His word, I consider this seriously;
How much more does God love me than He loves a bird? Besides, how does a bird know to let go in order to find freedom like what was described. If a bird can find such a freedom and the God I understand provides the bird that freedom simply because the bird let go, what might I experience were I to let go too?
