We use to laugh at some of Grandma's outlandish analogies ...such as the way she referred to cowbirds, making mention that sometimes people act that way.
Cowbirds lay more eggs than any other wild bird ...laying one egg at a time, but in another bird's nest.
(Usually the cowbird will remove one egg before replacing it with her own, as not to be conspicuous by the change in number of eggs in the nest.)
Let me make this clear ...Grandma passed away many years ago. (So no correlation with this Occupy nest example ...though Grandma would've perhaps said the cowbirds were the ones who began the 'Occupy' movement.)
With that said, I guess it's not that funny ...as it used to be. I would never refer to Grandma as an old bird ...she offered much to our lives, yet I do remember her acting similar (in some isolated ways) to having her wing broken, drawing attention to herself in leading others away (astray) ...to protect her nest(egg).
But though we don't often walk the walk ...Grandma helped encourage us along the path. It's not how we walk that determines whether we eventually get there. It's that we know who we are walking towards ...and that's what determines the direction of our life.
I always found it hard to imagine how we could reach the point where Jesus would say, "Many will say to me in that day; Lord, Lord ....and I will profess unto them, I never knew you ...."
