Amy Secrist

Tag: birds

  • Givingbirds Light

    These little birds flit around the house lighting here and there, sitting on the counters, standing on the chairs, zooming through the kitchen. They make “holy spirit water” and play church, wedding, and workers, after post office, house, and kitchen-shopping. Screaming-mad and cackling-happy these growing-up friends make their way through the days and I watch…

  • What Time?

    “Mama, Mama, Mama.” They call like newborn birds. They scramble to get to my criss-crossed lap. They throw silky arms about my neck, downy feathers in the breeze. I stop what I am doing, what I’ve not yet begun, with an eye to future’s empty nest, my raising work all done.  

  • Hidden behind thick, deep green magnolia leaves,

    “Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?” ~Matthew 6:26 Hidden behind thick, deep green magnolia leaves, (Extreme Endeavor) Hidden behind thick, deep green magnolia leaves, tucked between branching limbs, she sits,…