Sunday 27 May 2007

Pic of the day: Does my window really look like a piece of sky? Not to me.

"Not a sparrow..."

This happens with alarming regularity to us Christians, doesn't it? I know I have written about it a couple times back in my old apartment, the Chaos Node. Now it happened in the House of Chaos, and I cannot even say for sure if it was the first time. Actually I did not see or hear it this time. I came in the morning and there were small feathers on the window pane. A dead sparrow was lying on the cold stones outside.

There are ultraviolet decals you can put on your windows, I was told, that will warn off the birds. This certainly seems like a good idea, except perhaps to the neighbor's cats, who like that particular place. They will probably like it even better when it's raining sparrows. Anyway, since I don't actually own the place, I'd rather not add adhesives to the windows.

I bet atheists are just as frequently hit by kamikaze sparrows as us, they just don't write about it. Perhaps to them it is just a random event, like when a frog is run over by a car. The Bible fails to say anything about frogs being run over by cars (though it does mention a plague of frogs in Egypt). It does however quite famously talk about sparrows:

"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father." (Matthew 10:29)

Not that I know what a farthing is. Perhaps there will be a time when people don't know what sparrows are, but I doubt it. I suspect they will be kept around until "this gospel of the kingdom is preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then the end will come." Or the Singularity or something.