Wellll----once upon a time----like a few days ago----it happened for the umteenth time. Another chicken flew the coop. These days they now hang around the pen and I usually have my wife help me corner them. The first one went into the back woods and as I shared before, I thought I had lost her for good to the coyotes. In any event, the Miss Umpteenth was
cornered
garnered
and gathered into my arms. After settling her down, we did our now "famous" one-sided wing clip job. By trial and error, banding their legs, etc. we discovered that once we clip just one side of their wings, they cannot fly over the six-foot high wire pen. They cluck a little, but by and large, they take the clipping calmly and I do believe they "sense" it is for their own good.
So, of course there is an application: We do not do to well at times staying within the parameters that God has laid out for us. All to often, we stretch our wings and soar out-of-bounds. Fortunately our "Father" God comes searching for us (and we know when we are cornered don't we?) snatches us up, cradles us in his arms, and gently clips our wings, endeavoring to do what he can to discipline us and keep us "in-the-pen"---the pain experienced in the clipping process is nothing compared to the joy that comes with the protection that is in the pen. The coyotes cannot get in, other preying animals may dig, but with no success.
Being under the protection of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is sensational.
Incidentally, neither one of the roosters has ever flown the coop. Yet they are much more ornery than the chickens.
Now there is an application for you to develop, James.
Have a splendid evening and week.
Bro. Jaq |
