Excellent analogy —except that birds can’t shoot you.
Oh yeah; imagine that they peered into your nice house and sang that it was stolen —that you were living in occupied BIRDLAND, and that henceforth you should speak BIRDese. And then handed you —winged at you— a medical bill.
We’ve called them welfare birds for years but we still do feed them. We use feeders and feed which only encourage finches and oddly enough, woodpeckers. And we have a very hungry cat. Ya gotta have the cat.
God built the bird feeder and he filled it for all creatures, speaking in all languages, and even banking and eating Corn Flakes in all languages.
No matter what language you speak, he cares about you and understands you.
His food is for everyone, including those who can’t work. He gave some of us enough talent to earn enough not only for our own needs, but to provide others with their needs.
He too is upset about the bird poop. He came down himself and cleaned it up, without complaining. He was covered in bird poop for our sake. And our world will one day be completely clean.
He is pleased to see the nests and populatioin growing. That’s why he created the world. To see it filled with all kinds of birds, not just ones that sing the same tune.
Presssing one for English does not even qualify as a minor inconvenience. It is a trivial act. God, however, is familiar with inconvenience. When he came to earth, believe it, it wasn’t convenient. He gave up heaven, the angels, pure bliss and unimaginable glory. He was born in a barn, and quite possibly there were birds nesting — and pooping — right over his head.
When his parents made his birth sacrifice, they could only afford the very cheapest sacrifice — a few birds. I’ll bet they pooped on their way to the temple. But they were enough for him.
Let’s be concerned with more important things than having to press one for English, shall we? Let’s concern ourselves with the pressing needs of others.
After all, it was our poop God cleaned up.
Birds don’t listen to hip-hop music.
And he put out only one bird feeder.
France has thousands of bird feeders.
The scary thing is, we’d still have most of these problems without the illegal aliens.
There was a great analogy I once read about how some guy finally caught the wild hogs in the swamp by feeding them, building a fence one section at a time, feeding them daily and soon they were all coming.
They brought their “families”, kids, kin, etc and when the pen was completed he just shut the gate one day after they had all entered the enclosure to eat.
They had become so dependent on the daily feedings.
Now, if you could only find a couple of day laborers to help with the mess in your yard.
I heard this on Gallagher this morning. Worth a fresh ping.