I wanted to share an experience I had today and how awesome of a Heavenly Father we really have. On July 3rd I went to Tractor supply and decided I wanted some hens for eggs, considering I live in rural America...Temple GA. While I should have taken experienced help with me to do so, I did not. I left after seeing those cute, day old baby chicks with seven chickens, only wanting seven hens but I discovered I had four roosters to three little hens! Well when they began to reach crowing time, around twelve weeks old the breeding process began to take place. Adolescence hormones kicked in and so did the fighting over the three little girls! I gave the girls names; Prissy, a beautiful black one with what looked like a copper veil upon her head, Fancy, a black one with feathered fancy feet, and then my little Rhoda [Rhodie] a Rhode Island red. Now my little Prissy decided she was my favorite and always ran to me to cuddle and get me to give her treats which she wanted me to hand feed her! She claimed me and my attention and she reminded me of the Apostle John, the disciple whom Jesus loved!
As time moved on my little Prissy laid her first egg and I was so proud. I hated to crack it to eat as it was a baby chick... her baby! Finally after a week, I rethought things and realized this is what I got them for, eggs so I yielded and ate them and because she was laying eggs, she became well sought after by the four roosters. They began to squabble over her, so I made the decision to get rid of these roosters. I prayed, asked the Lord to help me find good homes and posted on Facebook and Nextdoor neighbor praying someone would need a rooster. Well God showed his hand in sending me Christina, the daughter of a very close friend Sharon, who had four hens that needed a rooster! She got the first of the four and her kids named him Richard. Now that is one happy boy who loves his life and his ladies!
A few days ago I heard Elena let out a terrible scream and run out backdoor, so I came out to investigate what was going on. It seems a hawk had come to get a chicken, my little Fancy and had actually landed on top of her in an attempt at taking off with her when Elena realized it was not a rooster but a hawk on top of her! He let go and flew off leaving his scared little captive shaken so badly they all hid all day for the next three days behind the cage and the fence, a very narrow space. There were black feathers all over from the attack and my little Fancy was so shaken she would not let a rooster touch her, she ran away screaming. Now she seems to have recovered and actually layed her first egg today! God protected my little hens, that is our Heavenly Father's love! [Fancy is the all black one in above photo]
Now I was left with three roosters, who all seem to want little Prissy, and she seems to enjoy all the fuss over herself and follows them around. Well I again sought help from the Lord (like Psalm 121) and Christina found her family member, April, that wanted a rooster and saw my photos and fell in love with our most beautiful and very regal black, gold, iridescent blue rooster, Elena [my daughter] called "El- Elyon" due to his exceptional beauty and how he defended the hens. He also tried to stop the other two Americanna brothers in a terrible fight. He jumped on top of them both while they were locked in a terrible battle to the death but with no success. I had to lock one up and now had two vying for the ladies attention.
Today the Lord again showed his hand in the little things that we are concerned with as April decided today she would come get our pretty boy. I was wondering how I was going to catch him. At first I left them in the cage till I felt bad as they always get free run of my back yard and patiently wait for their release and breakfast [I spoil them!]. It stopped raining and April was 20 minutes from coming for her choice, I went outside to try and figure out how to catch him, and I felt prompted to open a dog crate I had outside to put a rooster in for "time out", so I opened it, still thinking on how to catch him. Suddenly he walked up to the cage and began to drink rain drops on the cage and then he decided he would go inside! I just reached down and quietly closed him in, right before April arrived to get him! And amazing as it sounds, he did not panic at all, he just had a peaceful attitude as if he knew he was going to his forever home!
I wanted to share this incredible experience with the little things we care about and get you to realize if God cares about my chickens, dogs, cats, plants that are here today and gone tomorrow, what more will he not help us with our loved ones and prayers, and concerns in regard to family members and their souls?
I hope this little experience helps you realize how much we mean to him and how much he longs to show his endless love towards us. God bless each one of you who reads this.
SCRIPTURES
Luke 12: 22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
23The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Psalm 121
1[A Song of degrees.] I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forever more
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