Good Morning, I have this last chance to gather with you and a final opportunity to speak. And, despite my convictions otherwise, I am not entirely sure this will be a sermon in the traditional sense but something different. We will not be exegeting a passage of scripture together instead I want to talk about birds and allow them to be an on-ramp for us to learn a bit about God in the midst of this. 

I am generally not one for titles but today I chose a rather long one… Accipiters, Songbirds, and Pollinators: Learning about God as a Novice Birder. 

Our first Psalm is Psalm 6. Traditionally one of the communal songs of penitence – often sung in anticipation of Easter during Lent but the early church.

Lent helps us reorient our lives and remind ourselves that we do need salvation. That there are things that are fundamentally flawed with us that need to be rectified. Where we need to take stock of our lives and cry out with hopeful desperation that says Ywhw save me. And the Psalms give us a beautiful avenue to go about this, because of how multifaceted these kinds of songs allow us to enter into the song and prayers in a way that the words someone becomes our own.