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A Lesson in the Impossible
Luke 1:37 Nothing is impossible with God.
Hummingbirds - they are freaks of nature. Their body weight is grossly disproportionate to their wing span, and are scientifically impossible to duplicate mechanically. They (the size of a pencil eraser and weight of a few paper clips) migrate 500 miles, and while biologists hypothesized it was physiologically impossible for a bird this size this size to fly that far, it happens! We see it and rejoice in it. We too, can accomplish the impossible; overcome the obvious; confound the numbers or facts; change our destiny; turn the bad to good; the good to better and better to BEST. The choice we make, make us better or bitter. Let's take a lesson from the miracle of the hummingbird and for once let's not stick to the FACTS! Oh, and although they do not hum, they do remind us to hum, that inner joy that is unstoppable when we live in the truth of nothing is impossible with God. ~~Hummingbirds are found only in the Americas and make up the Western Hemisphere's second largest family of birds; they have an average flight speed of 25-30 mph, and can dive up to 60 mph. The tiny brain, 4.2% of its body weight, is proportionately the largest in the bird kingdom, as is their heart. A hummingbird can rotate each of its wings in a circle, allowing them to be the only bird which can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, sideways or sit in sheer space. To hover, hummingbirds move their wings forward and backward in a repeated figure eight, much like the arms of a swimmer treading water. They can not soar and do not have a good sense of smell and can not digest honey yet have excellent memories, many return to a feeder a year later. Their feet are so weak they can not support them on flat surfaces and they can not hop. They do not hum. ~~

Carol Chapman, Contributor
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