was supposed to have a youth workers' outing yesterday. planned to go to sentosa for picnic and then go cycle. brought all my things: clothes, shoes and so on. but... IT WAS CANCELLED!!! so sad. i think, now that school is starting, we wont have time for any more outings.

but i am also kind of glad we did not go to sentosa. *hahahahaha* because if i did go, i would not have been home so early and i would not get to see the birds outside my house!! woohoo.

for those of you who do not know, there is this family of birds that come to my house twice every year to build a nest in the potted plants outside my house. that is one reason why my mom keeps her potted plants even though they have grown too big. anyway, normally we do not get to see the whole process of how the parent birds force the babies to fly. but this time round, for some strange reason, the baby birds refuse to fly even after the parents destroyed the nest!! the nest was totally torn apart and the baby birds fell to the ground. thank God my brother spotted them or the babies would have been trampled upon by unsuspecting neighbours. so my family build a paper nest for the birds.. temporary, until they decide to fly. the poor parents have to continue to feed the babies i guess.. hahaha



the baby birds are really very cute. so cuddly and so tame. they'll cling on to your fingers and let you pat them. *hehehe* i'll miss them when they fly away. but if they do not fly away, they'll die. oh well. at least the parents are still taking care of them now..

but the way the parents force the kids to fly reminded me of the sermon on sunday, of how parents will not do anything to harm their kids. the parents did not mean to harm the kids when they destroyed the nest, they just wanted to the kids to learn to fly and do what they were created to do (soar in the skies). but the babies would not climb out of their nest to fly, so the parents have to destroy the nest to force them out. even now, when the babies refuse to fly, the parents still continue to care for them. one of them, the father (this black bibbed bird) is in charge of guarding and he is always somewhere near the nest, while the mother (the yellow one, no bib) will go and get food, as shown in the photos above (the one that shows her feeding). its an extra burden on them when the babies do not fly, but they still do it.

even the birds know how to give the best to their kids, what more our wise and almight God?