Chirp! (That's 'good day' in sparrow language). c.1848 Today I'd like to focus on all the New Birth that this season brings us. The new birth of baby birds. The new birth of baby animals. The new birth of flowers blooming. and The New Birth that Jesus Christ gives us with His death and resurrection. c. 1899 “Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?" ...Pablo Picasso Rubber stamp image courtesy of VivaLasVegaStamps. Check out Stampo's wonderful website, listed on the right.  “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston Churchill c.1906 wildflowers "Endless repetition, in and out of season, has spoiled for us the freshness, the naivete, the simple romantic charm of the Gospels. We hear them read far too often and far too badly.... When one returns to the Greek, it is like going into a garden of lilies out of some narrow and dark house." ....Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis Here's a sweet bear paper doll, with her baby bears: 'For God loved you so much that He gave His very own Son so that when you believe in Him you won't perish but have eternal life.' paraphrase of John chapter 3, verse 16, Bible "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." — St. Francis of Assisi Let me close with: inkspired http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/ [email protected]