“Consider the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Matt. 6:26
OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND: Gulls enjoy a symbiotic relationship with us. We buy junk food at the beach. We drop junk food at the beach. God’s cleanup crew cleans up the beach.
Jesus spoke of the kind of trust that made birds an example of how we too ought to live. We have become so enamored with planning and preparation for the future that we lose sight of how that impacts our ability to trust God. But maybe we’re not supposed to avoid planning, just stop worrying about it.
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