I’m so glad I live in a time when live eagle cams are a thing. I’m sure I wrote a post about this 12 years or so ago, but it bears repeated treatment. Watching a bald eagle pair thousands of miles away incubate eggs and raise eaglets is a wonderful experience that was not available to anyone in human history until this century.
You know what else wasn’t available? Access – on a computer in our pockets – to every tragedy and war and general upheaval occurring around the world. I don’t roam the halls of power. I don’t make world-shaking decisions. I don’t need to know all the details of military campaigns or the latest scandal that’s rocking Washington. I’m aware of what’s going on in the world, but I’m also immersed in my current job: teaching Shiloh addition and subtraction, reading Rumplestiltskin, listening to Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, and teaching Shadrach how to write his name. I realized recently that knowing everything about everything does not bring peace to my heart. It generally brings frustration and anxiety.
Which is why I’m so glad for the Big Bear Valley eagle cam. I know Jesus wasn’t referring to this particular variety when he said, “Look at the birds of the air” in an admonition to trust God’s care, but I still find the principle comforting. Shadow and Jackie sit high in a tree in the wilds of California, their lives unaffected by the greater world’s problems. Caring for their two eggs, hunting the next fish, warding off pesky ravens – these are their concerns. They are doing exactly what the Creator made them to do, and he is tenderly providing for them.
Just like he’s providing for me. Watching these beautiful birds pulls me back to Jesus and reminds me to keep my focus on him and what’s right in front of me.
After all, he’s got the eagles, Katie, and the whole world in his hands.
Made for Eternity 