According to Paul...
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According to Paul Harvey, a farmer heard an irregular thumping sound against his kitchen window during a storm. Sparrows kept hitting against the pane evidently attracted to the warmth inside. Harvey stated that the farmer was touched by the bird's struggle. He trudged to the barn in the snow and opened the doors and did what he could to help the birds come in from the cold. Every tactic he tried failed.
He withdrew to his house and watched the doomed sparrows continue to struggle and freeze. It dawned on him if he could become a bird... one of them... just for a moment he wouldn't frighten them as he had done by going outside.
Harvey wrote, "He had grasped the whole principle of the incarnation. A man's becoming a bird is nothing compared to God's becoming a man." Oh, that the whole world could grasp the importance of it all! (Charles Swindoll, The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart, p. 294-293).
He withdrew to his house and watched the doomed sparrows continue to struggle and freeze. It dawned on him if he could become a bird... one of them... just for a moment he wouldn't frighten them as he had done by going outside.
Harvey wrote, "He had grasped the whole principle of the incarnation. A man's becoming a bird is nothing compared to God's becoming a man." Oh, that the whole world could grasp the importance of it all! (Charles Swindoll, The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart, p. 294-293).
