They Were Just Mostly Dead

Today we heard the chirping of little birds outside. I thought I saw one flying on our back porch. When it hit our French door, I went to investigate. The dog had caught a small bird. Sadly, it died.

However, we discovered that the bird was one of "our" baby birds that we thought had died. The other three were very much alive and were all learning to fly. We kept Callie in, and we were able to observe the little birds as they tested their wings for the first time. They really are cute! We were so happy that we were wrong about them and that Jack had not yet had time to dispose of the nest.

Here's one of our little birds resting from its big day.

Another view of the bird.

I know it's rather small, in the big scheme of things, but we are really thankful that the little birds were not dead! God is so gracious! Not even a sparrow falls that He does not know about!