Fledging Love

I sat early this morning watching the birds in our bird box in the back garden back home getting more and more agitated, each one trying out its wings, getting closer to the hole up above, and dropping back down onto the others. Once or twice some made it to the hole, took a look outside, and dropped back into the crowded box. Then finally making it to the hole and gone. In ten minutes we went from a busy crowded box to just an empty nest. I wonder if they continue to be nurtured by their parents, or if that’s it? Flown the nest, your on your own.

One of my favourite Phil Collins songs is Can’t Stop Loving You, a story about someone leaving with the possibility of never coming back. However we get the lines:

Because I can’t stop loving you

No, I can’t stop loving you

No, I won’t stop loving you

Why should I?

(Even try)

I’ll always be here by your side (why, why, why?)

I never wanted to say goodbye (why even try?)

I’m always here if you change

Change your mind

At a recent Desert Island Discs at church where I was the castaway, this was one of my chosen pieces. It reminds me that we grow, we leave the nest, we step out into the big wide world, and we walk away from our home and, yes, sometimes God, yet, I believe He is always by our side, and He will always love us. He never wanted us to say goodbye AND He is always there if we change our mind. This is true even if we have never known Him. He is there waiting for you to come to Him. He will not even try to stop loving you