Musings on my Backyard Birds

Ahhh...wonderful summer!  Birds trilling, chirping, and heckling one another before the crack of dawn.  As I sat on my deck one morning, I was flummoxed to see both a robin and a mourning dove frolicking together near my backyard ornamental pear tree.  Up, away, back...reminding me of a roller coaster ride as they chattered back and forth.  Then I noticed that they seemed to be attending to a nest....both of them at the same one!  Of course, this made me google the likelihood of this..and YES, it does happen!  I learned that they actually assist in both the "sitting" and the "feeding" of those babies!  I was once again struck about how God's creatures can educate us in how to work alongside  other people ... humans are alike in so many ways, yet somehow we have elevated our differences rather than concentrating on the similarities.  That robin and mourning dove learned how to cooperate in order to achieve a great goal..getting those babies grown-up.  How amazing would it be to be more concerned about the goals of unity, of racial reconciliation, of compromising on gun control and education initiatives instead of standing in the corners of the boxing ring glaring at one another? Lessons from nature about what God wants us to look like.