When Your Quiet Time Goes to the Birds

My “quiet time” was a joyful cacophony of birds chirping, whistling and chortling.  It brought to mind these verses (which I think is just what Go wanted to say to me this morning):

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:25-27

When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”  Matthew 8:18-21 (niv)

How many are your works, LORD!   In wisdom you made them all;  the earth is full of your creatures.  There is the sea, vast and spacious,  teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.   ... All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time.  When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things. Psalm 104:24-28 (niv)

The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.  "When times get bad, people cry out for help. They cry for relief from being kicked around,  But never give God a thought when things go well, when God puts spontaneous songs in their hearts,  When God sets out the entire creation as a science classroom, using birds and beasts to teach wisdom.  People are arrogantly indifferent to God - until, of course, they're in trouble, and then God is indifferent to them.  There's nothing behind such prayers except panic; the Almighty pays them no mind.  So why would he notice you just because you say you're tired of waiting to be heard,  Or waiting for him to get good and angry and do something about the world's problems? Job 35: 8-15 (msg)