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In early April, as Owen and his sister search the hickories, oaks,
and dogwoods for returning birds, a huge group of birds leaves the
misty mountain slopes of the Yucatan peninsula for the 600-mile
flight across the Gulf of Mexico to their summer nesting grounds.
One of them is a Cerulean warbler. He will lose more than half his
body weight even if the journey goes well. Aloft over the vast
ocean, the birds encourage each other with squeaky chirps that say,
“We are still alive. We can do this.†Owen’s family watches
televised reports of a great storm over the Gulf of Mexico, fearing
what it may mean for migrating songbirds. In alternating spreads,
we wait and hope with Owen, then struggle through the storm with
the warbler. Â This moving story with its hopeful ending
appeals to us to preserve the things we love. The backmatter
includes a North American bird migration map, birding information
for kids, and guidance for how native plantings can transform yards
into bird and wildlife habitat.
C.H. Spurgeon said, "Those great preachers whose names we remember,
were men who counted nothing their own: they were driven out from
their benefices, because they could not conform to the Established
Church, and they gave up all they had willingly to the Lord. They
were hunted from place to place, they wandered here and there to
preach the gospel to a few. Those were foul times; but they
promised they would walk the road fair or foul, and they did walk
it knee-deep in mud; and they would have walked it if it had been
kinee-deep in blood too. But now we are all little men, there is
scarce a man alive now upon this earth." Iain Murray added, "The
atmosphere of that day was electric and charged with emotion; the
popular discontent was great and strong guards stood ready in
London, but these sermons seem far removed from all that. There is
a calmness, and unction and a lack of invective. Great though their
sorrow was for their flocks and for their nation, they had a
message to preach which was more than equal to the strain of the
crisis. An eternal God, an Ever-Living Saviour and a glorious hope
of heaven, carried them through this heaviest trial."
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