Birds Still Nest
Some people try to claim that the earth we live on is millions of years old, regardless of the impossibility of the idea.
And regardless of the age of the earth, the morning and the evening still come about and don't seem to wait for me to push any button and start the sun shining or the moon rising. It happens automatically.
It's no secret that I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson and Dennis Prager. I find their common sense ideas good.
One idea that emerges is that life is difficult, and the sooner people realize and accept this the happier and more content they'll be.
Somewhat like a horse jumping hurdles, life presents challenges each day for us to overcome. Each one of us has their own private hurdle to overcome. What for one person may be a challenge may not be for another.
In a trophy laden world, where everyone expects a trophy whether they've earned it or not, it doesn't seem fair that life isn't sunshine and rainbows every day.
But it isn't, and just as all sunshine makes a desert, we don't tend to appreciate a life that is all easy peasy. Most people want some challenge.
We've had occasions through the years when the morning after a thunderstorm we find bird's nests on the ground. Sometimes there are eggs in the nest, and sometimes baby birds have perished.
The bird parents don't pitch a fit and give up, they start over. They still nest in the trees. Because life isn't always utopia, it isn't always fair, but it is always worth the effort. Maybe we can't see it, but hope springs eternal and there is a reward.
"I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him." (Ecclesiastes 3:10-14 KJV)
