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Birds of the Bible
Consider the Birds:
A Provocative Guide to the Birds of the Bible
Debbie Blue
Abingdon Press, 2013, paperback
How many birds are mentioned in the Bible? You possibly know about God’s concern for the sparrows, and have soared on eagles’ wings in times of distress. When you think of those lilies of the field, you might also find yourself looking more closely at the cranes and swallows to “observe the time of their coming” (Jeremiah 8:7). But that’s it. All too often our spiritual aviary isn’t any wider.
A new book, Consider the Birds (Abingdon Press, Nashville), from pastor Debbie Blue of St. Paul, Minnesota, does some of the work for us. “Once you start looking for birds,” Blue writes, “you will find them everywhere. … I believe it is the same way with the grace of God—when you are paying attention, you’ll discover [grace] in places you hadn’t noticed it before.” Her hope in writing this book, she adds, ”was to get myself and readers deeply paying attention to what flits by us on any given day, to the layers of meaning in sacred text.”
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