Saturday, June 23, 2007

Jesse's Miracle Strawberries

In May, Jesse decided that he wanted to grow strawberries, raspberries, and tomatoes. We went to the plant store and picked out a few starts. Every day Jesse waters them. In the last couple of days the strawberries ripened for eating! It's been a fun experience for us to watch God grow fruit with the perfect recipe of love, water and sunshine. A couple days ago while I was mowing the lawn I notice a baby bird in the grass. It must have fallen from it's nest. I showed my boys and they were very concerned. We put it in the bushes so that it would be safe. (it had very protective parents ~ another story in itself) It lived over night, the parent's must have been feeding it. Later the next day Jesse found the little featherless creature in the middle of the yard. He had a great idea, he was going to feed the poor little bird some of his yummy strawberries. He asked then proceeded to feed it. The bird actually ate the strawberries! He was beside himself excited! He went to bed that night thinking about the bird. The next morning he ran outside to check on it. To his and our surprise it had climbed up on a brush pile we have in the middle of the yard. As he moved toward it, it flew like a true novice to a tree close by! All of us were shocked... a little helpless, featherless bird grew enough wings overnight to make it to safety the very next morning! We all agree that those were miracle strawberries that God helped Jesse grow.

2 comments:

Karen P said...

If we could all have the faith of a child. You are doing such a great job in not crushing that faith in him.

Yeah, Jesse.

Heather said...

What a phenomenal story! That is one for the books!! One day Jesse will look back at that and it will encourage him... Jesus said that "the kingdom belongs to such as these (children)" - his faith and belief is example of why!!!