Have you ever looked up and discovered inspiration? Have you ever looked up and unearthed wisdom? Have you ever looked up and found peace? There are times we look up, and our answers are right there.
I looked up and saw a baby blue jay peaking over the nest and chirping ever so lightly. It was a nest of baby blue jays nestled in the middle of the tree. I could only see the one baby and the mamma blue jay flying around, making loud squawking noises.
It also was apparent the mamma bird built her nest in a safe place. High up in the middle of the tree was her designated spot to birth her babies.
How many times are we looking for a safe place and can’t seem to find our way? This passage is also evident: Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them? (Matthew 6: 26 NKJV) There are a number of things unknown about the nest of baby blue jays in the middle of the tree. The profound takeaways are something new, something blue, in a place of safety divinely carved out by God. Also in this place of safety, the babies are nourished, cultivated and protected.
As believers, we often leave our place of safety to go out and accomplish our own endeavors. Reassuringly enough, it is in our safe place that we will locate love, peace, protection, strength and sustenance.
What is also obvious is as we go to and fro to build, we will always be drawn back home; if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me. (John 12: 32 KJV) Even if it’s not your home of origin but a home symbolic of your heritage, our compass (spiritually) will guide us home. As the years go by, age to age, it is in our posterity that we lay claim to our home past, present, or future.
Likewise, there is a royal blue handkerchief from my maternal grandmother, Virginia. Virginia means pure or virgin, and anyone that knew her, her name suited her in every way. Truth be told, it doesn’t seem like much, but it is a piece of her that I will forever cherish. It belonged to her mother, Louise, before her. The name Louise means renowned or famous warrior. Like the baby blue jays nestled way up high, the blue scarf was meshed in the midst of so many of my grandmother’s old things, but still, the blue scarf was preserved by God.
When I unearthed the scarf pristinely kept, divinely cloaked, I was mesmerized by its newness and shine. The royal blue color was so captivating, held in place just for me to find. Now washed and pressed and held close to my vest, ever mine.
What of yours is waiting for you to uncover? More importantly, what does the heirloom message of yours convey? The message unveiled for me, and I hope you too— something new, something blue.
Many times God is prompting us to get out of the way and do a new thing. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43: 19 KJV) As a result, he yields new strategies to carve out and establish new mindsets and creeds, blaze new trails, and conquer new regions. There are times it’s the little things that prompt and promote us into the new.
Apostle Jacqueline Hudson is a Waycross resident and author of the book “Never Say Never: A Memoir with a Twist.”
