~God's Power Within Mothers~

God's Wings, an article in National
Geographic several years ago provided a
penetrating picture of God's wings.
After a forest fire in Yellowstone National
Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to
assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird
literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on
the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by
the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a
stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks
scurried from under their dead mother's wings.
The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had
carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had
gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing
that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown
to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then
the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her
small body, the mother had remained steadfast.
Because she had been willing to die, those under the
cover of her wings would live.