Of how much more value are you than the birds?

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Luke 12:24

If you can focus your eyes

on that bird on the bench,

the one in the charcoal suit

with the off-white shirt,

see that it’s small and proper

with a formal tail tipping

and a head swiveling socially,

see how it flaps straight up

and lands on the same spot,

with bugs on its breath, see it

smooth and present there

and not as a specimen,

an example, a kind or a type,

as a pet to be held or a carcass

for the altar or the market,

but as a small bird on a bench,

then you will have prayed,

and prayed well I would say,

as if you loved an ordinary

and otherwise unnoticed bird.

~Jeffrey Johnson