"He Watches Over Me"

A few weeks ago, the kids and I found these two baby sparrows in the front yard. We watched as the mother sparrow kept coming and feeding them as they hid the browning grass of our front yard. That night we went to sleep well aware they were hiding out in the long dying grass out front. The next day I had planned to cut what little green grass there was in the front, and the thick lushes grass in the back of our home. So Luke (the soon-to-be 3 year-old) went on a mission to find out if it was safe to cut (safe for the sparrows that is). What we found was one baby hopping and hungry... and the other, lifeless.
We buried the one in the back yard and helped (with the aid of a shovel) the other into the tree. (Hence the picture above).

Fast forward today's (7/12/09) Daily bread and this promise from God:
"Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. Even all the hairs on your head are numbered. So do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows." Matthew 10:29-31 NET Bible

Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.