There is a time when we stumble. We wander around in the darkness like lost children.
Day 1 – baby cardinal’s life
We lay naked, exposed, fearing the worst.
Day 2 – baby cardinal’s life
We fear what the world holds…that things might not pan out the way we want them to pan out.
Day 3 – baby cardinal’s life
Maybe we curl up underneath the covers scared to face the day. Or maybe we poke our heads out just to see if it’s safe, only to withdraw again under the covers.
But we forget, we are held by a much larger hand.
Day 4 – baby cardinal’s life
One that lovingly picks us up each time we fall. One that picks up our nest, our egg, and even our tiny bodies and places them all back where they belong… safely tucked underneath his wing, in his tree, under his leaves.
Day 5 – baby cardinal’s life
And it’s in that safety and security we begin to blossom into what he has planned for us.
We may look naked, feel naked. We may feel ugly. But He sees us as the beautiful being he has made to be… flying free from this world’s trappings.
We may not look like the beautiful cardinal we will one day become…full of beautiful color, melodious song and wings that fly safely above the earth below.
But we are getting there…
Under the watchful eye of the One who loves us the most.
Photos of the first 5 days of our baby cardinal’s life. Nest rescued from a tree being cut down. Bird, egg and nest picked up off the ground numerous times and placed back in a bush, all under the watchful eye of mama and papa cardinal.
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