The Carolina Wren is a small bird, barely 4 inches from beak
to tip of the tail. They are a golden brown with inquisitive eyes. I was
reading outside our camper when one of these little beauties landed on the
shoulder of my chair. I had been watching the pair of them much of the morning.
The industrious Wrens had been flying back and forth building their home. I
admired their creativity but they were building this nest in my plastic basket full
of beach towels. In and out, they wove their bits of leaf and stick and fur. They
had the beginnings of a nice little cup of a nest resting among the towels. But
we needed those towels and finally had to take away their home. In reality the
nest would have been temporary at best. A plastic basket of towels sitting
outside a camper is not a place to lay eggs and raise offspring! So, with a bit
of guilt, we removed the towels from the basket, threw them in a chair and put
the basket inside the camper. That should be the end of that right?
As I sat back in my camp chair, the wren came and sat behind
me on the shoulder of my chair. He had a bit of blue thread in his beak. And he
was looking for his home. This wren was 6 inches from my right eye and giving me
a look that said, “ok, home wrecker, where is it? Where is my nest?” Then he moved to the arm of the chair, right
by my elbow and continued to look for the home he had built. Hopping from my
chair to the table to another camp chair, my friend the Carolina Wren decided
to start anew. Soon he was building a second nest – in the folded beach towels I
had tossed in a camp chair. Silly bird.
My dear beautiful wren, why do you insist on building a home
on things that are temporary? And why do I do the same thing?
Do not
lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and
where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also. (MT6:19-21, ESV)
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