Our hummingbirds keep looking in our window while we have morning coffee. I wonder if they are saying “so long, farewell.” They have such a long trip ahead of them. I keep asking “how do you know the way?” They silently answer, “God.”

“There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast,–“

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -C.H. Spurgeon

Somewhere I heard the story of city workers who were trimming limbs off of trees along the street. As they were about to cut a limb from a tree they noticed a robin on its nest. Not wanting to harm the birds they decide to leave it alone until another day. Later in the summer when they did come back the birds were gone so they cut the limb off. Woven in the empty nest was a piece of paper that had been picked up off the street. It was torn from a page of an old Sunday school book; The words on it said, “We trust in the Lord our God.”

“He who from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.” (To a Waterfowl by William Bryant)