The House Sparrow is a very social bird. Today one of them visited our kitchen briefly before it flew out into the warm morning through the open door to the garden...
I used to sing about this friendly bird to our son when he was hospitalized with a broken leg. We could not see the sky from our little room in the hospital when my little two year old asked "Mum, can you call the doctors from the ambulance to take me home?" and chocking back my tears I tried to tell him that we needed to stay in the hospital for his bone to go back into place and then be able to set. So I sang about the friendly sparrow who visited our window and I prayed in my heart for God to heal and ease the pain!
Healing takes time but in the end the difficult tials we go through make us stronger and able to comfort others who undergo similar situations.
The little sparrow gifts us with his friendliness. It has been intentionally or accidentally introduced to many parts of the world, making it the most widely distributed wild bird. It is strongly associated with human habitations, but it is not the only sparrow species found near houses. It is a small bird, with feathers mostly different shades of brown and grey.
