How can a person be so lucky as to wake up in the long days of June with the sparrows singing in the open bedroom window? God has given us these long days to enjoy the wonderful world around us that we live in. Everything around us is vibrant, and with beautiful flowers, bushes, and trees. There is a sparrow bush next to the house behind to our bedroom window with about 20 families of sparrows that are making the wonderful sounds we hear when we wake up.
How lucky we are to live in the beautiful northwest United States where we have the opportunity to see, smell, and hear the beauty around us. The other night I saw and heard a barn owl as it sat on the roof of the house next door. That brought thoughts of the people in Venezuela who, because of their communist dictator president, are not as lucky as we are. Venezuela has the resources to be one of the richest nations in the world, but they have even had to eat their birds, cats, dogs, rats, and other small animals to keep from starving. Continue reading