Robin and Sparrow

American Robin

House Sparrow 

I picked out these two pictures to share today and when I thought about a title for this post, I realized that “Robin and Sparrow” sounded like a poem I had heard somewhere. I looked it up and sure enough!

Here’s an excerpt from A Time and a Place by Phil Keagy.

Said the robin to the sparrow

"I would really like to know

Why these anxious human beings 

Rush about and worry so" 

Said the sparrow to the robin 

“Friend I think that it must be 

That they have no heavenly Father 

Such as cares for you and me" 

Have you considered the sparrows up above? 

They do not sow, they do not reap 

And yet your heavenly Father feeds them 

And His love for you is much more deep 

After all you are part of it all.