BLACKBIRD

Snippet

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.  Jacques Deval  Afin de vivre bel et bien.

Scripture

These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean  any kind of raven Leviticus 11:13,15 NIV

Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.  The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.  I Kings 17:2-6  NIV

Song

Blackbird Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRgtyUEhLgA

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly, into the light of the dark blue night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to arise,

You were only waiting for this moment to arise,

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Sentence Prayer

Father: help me accept nourishment from what I perceive as unclean, knowing your path always leads to holiness.  Amen  Roger Miller

A.dore   Praise God for creating both clean and unclean animals. (Leviticus)  Praise God for creating the NormaL and abnormal animal.  Praise God for both light and darkness in life.

C.onfess   To God the times you have refused to take what he has offered from the blackbird.

T.hank    God for his provision.  Thank God for the prophets of life.  Thank God for his rest.

S.uplication   Pray for all the disenfranchised.  The Christians in Countries that are being persecuted.  Those who are being mistreated for the color of the skin, their lifestyles and their Gender.

Paul McCartney wrote this song for African Americans in their struggle for Civil Rights.