Went exploring today.
“Did you not understand?”
“Do you NOT understand?”
What don’t you understand?”
were the quotes I awoke to resounding in my half awake, foggy mind this morning after a restless, mostly sleepless night after listening/reading in Romans the night before.
The smoke alarm was chirping to the sound of our nocturnal songster outside the window. His persistence to continue day after day and night after night fascinates me, perched in the same tree. If it is a mocking bird that I highly suspect upon googling, he may be a young, lonely, unattached bachelor singing a love song or a forlorn older male who’s lost his mate. Only during brief times during the day does this chorister take breaks.
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-minor-bird-by-robert-frost
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-minor-bird-by-robert-frost
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-minor-bird-by-robert-frost
I am praising the Lord for my ultimate source of encouragement, the Scriptures. The more I soak in the book, it’s truths, the more assured I am that God is taking care of me just as he has for the past 68 years.
I am just as safe putting my faith in him when things are going great as well as when chaos and adversities are all about me.
I believe! I found the book's heart!
“For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” ~Rom.1:17
The whole book appears to unravel from that one verse, that one word, “RIGHTEOUSNESS”. If I understand this one word then perhaps it opens understanding to the rest of Romans.
Righteousness is basically “conformity to a standard."
I stepped out of Romans briefly to visit some other passages.
“They READ from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.” Nehemiah 8:8
(So, they read which led them to understand.)
Matthew 22:29 “Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.” (“All errors arise from not knowing the Scriptures and the power of God.”)
In closing just a reminder to myself to not miss the point that it IS God's righteousness that is demonstrated in his offer.
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-minor-bird-by-robert-frost
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-minor-bird-by-robert-frost
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