THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU!

This journal piece was written May fifth back in 2005 but was selected for May 23's reading in the book made for our families. For no particular reason then, it suits today, as I look out at our bird-feeder and hunger to see an Oriole.  When this journal entry was originally written, we lived in Arizona, and had a yard-full of exquisite, small parrot-like birds, so beautiful and green and they all came daily, at  one time, together like a big  family.  It was wonderful! The entry follows:


"All morning the song, "There is None Like You" has been running through my head.   I took a few minutes of silent time this morning and watched the tiny, green parrot-like birds in the pine tree as they squeaked to each other. They sound more like mice than birds!  I can't find them in any bird book, so I suspect they began with a pair of birds that escaped their cage. They are special, unforgettable. There is nothing like them.  That's when I started singing, "There is none like you, no one else can love me like you do." No.  And there is no one like God, either.


"Then, I thought, 'And there is no one like me, either; no one in this world is exactly like me.  There are a lot of birds, but no other tiny parrot-birds.  There are a lot of humans, but no one else exactly like me.  God created and God loved.  Why?


There is nothing--no other god, no person, nothing  else----like my God, our God, for God is the beginning of each and all of us, the substance of us, the whole of us, our entirety, our completion, our very being.  We are all God's people and God-people.  The Holy Spirit sees to all of this. I just get to enjoy...and believe!  Thanks be to God!"


And I pray for your perfect peace and your full acceptance of these words, this truth.


Loving all! Join me in the great privilege of belonging to God!'
Jo INMN