The, er, beauty of peacocks.

January 4, 2012 at 3:10 pm · Filed under Hearing and tagged: bible, bird watching, nature, religion, Scripture, spirituality

Sure, we all know peacocks are pretty birds, particularly the guys who love to strut their beauty.  But let them open their beaks, and — wow.  Have you heard that noise before??  My folks had neighbors who had peacocks.  It’s quite distinguishable.

My bedroom is on the second floor.  I miss most of the road noise from my open windows.  What filters towards me is the pre-dawn world awakeners.  In the summertime, I like to just listen to their happy chirpy chatter and don’t even want to hit “snooze.” But down the road is a farm with peacocks – they must be a good half-mile away.  One particular morning, the wind must have been blowing just right to bring me both the lovely sounds of the morning birds, and the, well, something like a loud miscues of a junior high blatty clarinet player.  It was indeed a harmonious chorus broken up with the whine of the peacock’s “meeeoooowww” thrown in . . . repeatedly.  I really would have prefered he be shut in the barn.  He may be a pretty bird, but singin’ ain’t his thang!

I suppose he doesn’t know that though.  He’s just happy to be praising his Maker with what was given him.  Some may see his feathers as the way to be proud as a peacock.  We have all been given something of unique beauty whether our looks, our voice, our ability to work, make money, whatever.  And we all have characteristics on the other side of the scale – those things that make others around us cringe.  But you know, the Lord God made it all, and all for his glory, be it beauty or bawling or both.   So whatever it is to God gave you to praise with, OUT WITH IT!

Luke 19:39-40  Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”  “I tell you, ” he [Jesus] replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

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