Recently, I was blessed with a couple of encounters with these tiny, fast moving, fascinating creations. Well, it was one encounter with a hummingbird and one with a hummingbird moth which I thought was a real hummingbird until I did a little research.

On Sunday morning as I was getting ready for a small, pop-up family reunion, I took a minute to look out the window at my son Seth’s beautiful flower garden. There was a tiny hummingbird flirting from cone flower to hydrangea. When it flew right up to the window, I realized that there was no screen in the open window! For a few seconds, I wondered what I would do if the little bird flew into the room.

Luckily for me, I didn’t have to make any extreme moves as the hummingbird nodded a greeting and took off after another bit of nectar. I stayed very still and was able to enjoy an up-close and personal view of this magnificent creature.

Then, just this evening Rich and I were on our deck and watching the sun set over the lake. We never tire of this amazing display of God’s love. Rich was at one end of the deck and I at the other; there is a row of flower boxes on the front of the deck. Rich looked up and quietly spoke, “I can’t tell if this is a hummingbird or an insect. It’s wings are moving a mile a minute and it is diving in and out of the flowers. It’s coming your way.” I, having become a recent expert on hummingbirds, pronounced that the teeny-tiny, brownish red being that I saw was a hummingbird.  It poked into a few more flowers and flew off into the twilight.

Well, don’t you know that when I took a minute to look up hummingbirds, I found that there is a moth which has many of the same characteristics of the bird and they are often mistaken for each other. This evening’s flyer was the moth.

What a treat to see both miracles in two days! I cannot look at the hummingbirds, moths and sunsets without feeling God’s unconditional love surrounding me.  What gifts! Incredible creations with attributes and abilities beyond imagination, all for us to appreciate and cherish.

Let God’s unconditional love surround you and give you wings to fly above the chaos of a world beyond our control.  Always remember that God loves you. How? Unconditionally!

Terri

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? Matthew 6:26