Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know Lord, a friend shared a recent time she’d had, saying: “One day I noticed a bird in the street, just sitting there. Odd. Then a young lad showed up, also saw the bird and since I was old and stiff, he suggested that he’d bend down to see about releasing the bird. WE saw that the bird was stuck! The lad gently removed the one little foot that was trapped in a tiny crack, lifted the little foot from the crack; immediately the bird flew away, he was FREE.

“I thanked him, mentioned Psalm 124:7-8, a Bible verse I’d just read about birds: ‘We have escaped like a bi...