Chirp!

This little bird was stuck in the ladies bathroom in Ireland. He was where he wasn't supposed to be. Meant to be outside flying, he found himself restrained by a building made by humans.
This morning at 3 am, "chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp" was heard outside my window. A couple of minutes later, "chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp." And again, "chirp, chirp, chirp". The bird must have found reason to sing, though an odd hour it was. The darkness of night still covered Portland.
One thing I've noted over the years is that as soon as the sun goes down, the birds cease their songs for the night, but the moment the light appears again in the morning, so too they begin on their day. Night is not the normal time for birds to be singing. So, I found this a bit intriguing that the birds would be singing at this odd hour, and so listened to them for a while.
In the last couple of years, I have really come to love the verse that talks about God's care and about worry, showing the birds as an example of God's provision and love.
Matthew 6:26 says this:
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? "
Luke 12:24 says the same thing, only instead of asking a rhetorical question, it states it with an exclamation. It says, "And how much more valuable you are than birds!"
As the birds chirped their song in the early am, I remembered two things. One, how they are inclined to sing with the light, and two, how they are examples of God's love, care, and provision.
When we look to God, we find He is light and is surrounded by light. No darkness is found in him, or near Him. When we see Him in the greatness of who He is we too, like the birds can't help but sing, sing songs of praises to the God who created us, loves us, saved us, and brought us into a right relationship with Him, for HIS honor and glory, which is a beautiful, wonderful, amazing thing!
God, even in the greatness of who He is, takes care of the little things, even the mortal which are here today gone tomorrow. As He cares for the birds, He cares for us. We are so much more valuable than birds, so we can rest in the fact that God will take care of all our needs, that He loves us, and we have nothing to worry about. Who of us by worrying can add a single hour to his life anyway?
So, let us sing out songs of thanks and praise to the one who is worthy...even at an hour where it seems out of place, as it never is so as we see God in the light of who He really is! He is the great
"I AM".