Reading my devotional this morning, I get stuck on how God caters in a daily meal of quail to feed a plethora of people wandering around in the desert. I consider how many quail might live in a flock, if they lived behind rocks, and whether or not God blew them in off their migratory paths. But then again, they weren’t migrating every day for 40 years, were they?

Faulty logic for sure, the sheer volume of birds necessary to meet the nation’s hunger needs is mind-boggling. In the end, I realize that I’d become caught up in a loop of circular reasoning and decided to quit thinking about the birds. 

That is until a short while later while looking at the neighbors’ plum tree outside my window, I say aloud, I wonder if those are, then no, it couldn’t be, but it looks like it might be. My husband asks what? I say there’s a big flock of hummingbirds in the tree nextdoor. 

Unsure about the species, I continue to question myself, saying this must be a similar type of bird as I don’t believe that hummingbirds fly in large groups. Even so, here they were, a group of 30 or more flitting about the limbs. In waves of about seven or eight, they hover over the branches for a matter of seconds before flying off almost as quickly as they appeared.  

 My hubby reaches the window in time to see the last of the birds briefly hover before speeding away. He confirms that they are indeed hummingbirds. We began to talk about how we had never seen more than a pair of hummers in the yards at a time. 

I then recall how earlier; I had failed to figure out God’s Quail Meal delivery service with my limited reasoning. Goes to show just because something or an event doesn’t usually happen: it does not mean a thing will never happen. Today’s hummingbird appearance shortly following the devotional questioning serves to reminds me of the need to allow room for the mystery of the miraculous by setting aside my ideas about the ways I think that God can/will/could/should do things.

Scriptures

MSG

ISIAH 55:8-11

8-11 “I don’t think the way you think.

    The way you work isn’t the way I work.”

        God’s Decree.

“For as the sky soars high above earth,

    so the way I work surpasses the way you work,

    and the way I think is beyond the way you think.

KJV

EPHESIANS 3:20-21

20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.