Sacred Stories
Bike riding, she pointed out yet another lot which had recently been cleared.
“This was home to a pair of pileated woodpeckers,” she bemoaned.
“Where do they take them when they clear the land?” her daughter asked.
“They don’t take them anywhere. They just destroy the habitat. If the pair survives, they do. If they don’t, they don’t,” she responded critically.
Turning the corner and joining the main road, as they crossed the street an unusual flight pattern of a bird caught their attention before landing on a nearby utility pole.
The bird was a pileated woodpecker!
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (Matthew 6:25-27)