Trashed? – ‘Owling to be rescued
One
evening when leaving work at the Church I saw something I’d never seen before. It was an owl on the ground in the parking
lot hopping around. It seemed to be
searching for something.
The
next morning I arrived at Church, heading down the ramp toward the office. I had some trash and walked over to the trash
can near the elevator on the lower level.
I was
about to throw the trash into the can, but noticed in the bottom there was a
baby owl looking up. The trash can had a
metal ring as the lid. The baby owl
couldn’t fly through it.
Our
secretary’s daughter worked with animals at the local university, and came over
to assist us. We used towels to handle
the owl and she put it in a tree nearby.
The bird hopped down, then hopped over to the area near the elevator and
flew into the door of a supply room.
She
eventually took the baby owl to Project Wildlife to be checked out. After their evaluation the owl would be
returned to the environment.
LESSON I LEARNED,
related to Reconciliation – The owl had gotten trapped and couldn’t get out on
its own. It needed assistance to get
clear of the obstacles blocking it in.
In our sinfulness we get trapped and need God’s assistance to reconnect
with our family of faith.
