Everything That We Need...

I woke up early this morning, and, while the rest of the world slept around me (or seemed to..) I simply knelt by the window and watched the morning unfold..

In time, a tiny little brown sparrow showed up near the feeder and began to root around, poking here, poking there... and then, it flew off..

I watched it as it flew away, disappearing out of sight... and I marvelled how such a tiny little thing, without the capability to call for or to receive help... a little creature that has no hands, no tools.. seemingly nothing.. manages to get by and live in such a huge, complicated world..

I don't know what it does, or how it does it each and every day... I don't know where it goes, or who with... but, it would appear that it gets by quite nicely..

..and I was, and continue to be, amazed by this!!

Just one tiny, helpless little bird in all of the world... and it knows *precisely* how to be *precisely* what it is... and it does it!

Each and every day.

It lives *precisely* as long as it lives... and then it dies *precisely* when it dies... and that's all! It doesn't worry about it.. doesn't agonize over it.. doesn't do anything except what it was born to do... be a tiny little brown sparrow. And it does this *perfectly*!!

As the tiny brown shape disappeared into the blue sky.. leaving me to dream of small brown birds with delicate wings and shiny little black eyes... it dawned on me;

The Universe is perfect!! It gives us *everything* that we need to do whatever it is that we must do... it left nothing out!.. It is*all* right here around us, right now, all the time!!

I find immense beauty in this...

Thank you, little brown bird, for being such a wonderful teacher..