The Email Newsletter of People's City Mission, Lincoln, Nebraska

I was really looking forward to this Memorial Day weekend

And finding time to work in my garden that I need to tend;

But when I started searching for my tools and garden gloves

I came upon this nest with these two baby Mourning Doves.

 

Their nest had been carefully built in an old clay flower pot

That I had abandoned last fall or else completely forgot;

However, later it providentially proved to be just right

For the mother dove to nurture her babies out of sight.

 

My thoughts of yard work came to a sudden halt

Not because of fatigue or some physical fault;

But rather due to my own maternal instincts

As well as, I'm sure, some other biblical links...

 

For somewhere, I remembered, the Psalmist once said

  "Do not deliver the soul of the dove to the wicked.

   Do not forget the life of the poor forever."     Psalm 74:19

And thus I was challenged by these words of the Psalter.

 

And so on this Memorial Day weekend

I hope dear Reader, and People's City Mission friend;

That you did not forget the life of the poor and the homeless

And all of our vulnerable guests whose lives we seek to bless.