Trapped

     Trapped! I saw it struggling to get loose and gently released it from the trap. A Cactus Wren, the State Bird of Arizona, but barely alive. Our new home seems to attract rats with the citrus fruit growing in our yard. My husband put out traps to catch the rats, but this bird decided to crawl into the trap and try to eat the cheese.

     I stroked the birds feathers and released it into a large bougainvillea where it stretched its wings to fly. My husband noted, "I didn't know they would eat cheese." I know how much he enjoys the birds flitting around our yard. My heart was heavy too for the suffering creature and I said a prayer for God to heal it. 

     As the day went on, I pondered the bird's situation and thought about times I had gone where I shouldn't have gone and gotten into things that were not the best for me. Those times often ended up with me feeling lost and trapped by my flesh and sin's webbing of consequences that bound me. As a Christian, the best place for me is in God's Word, prayers, and submission to the Will of God for my life. My worldly wanderings don't help me fly, but trap me in old habits and in past situations that clip my wings. 

Psalm 90:10

Our days may come to seventy years,

or eighty, if our strength endures;

yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.