World Sparrow Day 2020
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These birds have been a part of my existence for as long as I can remember, yet it would appear that they and other urban dwelling species have fallen on difficult times.
World Sparrow Day is a day designated to raise awareness of the house sparrow and other citified birds that perhaps they might thrive in a better manner than we see on the sidewalks of those urban jungles where they fend for themselves capturing various scraps disgarded by the denizens of that urban jungle we inhabit during the workaday world.
Their plight has been made known to us by those persons of India who indeed care for people and creatures much better than many of us american natives and indeed I am shamed by their insight when I compare it to my own.
It would seem that biodiversity includes those species that flit about us as we pursue the workday in the cities of the world for indeed they occupy that same importance we might apply to the more mainstream of those endangered species.
His Eye Is On the Sparrow
Why should I feel discouraged?
And why should the shadows come?
Why should my heart feel lonely
And long for heavenly home
When Jesus is my portion?
And my constant friend is He
You know, His eye is on the little sparrow
And I know he cares for you and me
His eye is on the little sparrow
And I know God is watching over you and me
I sing because my soul is a happy
I sing because I'm free
For His eye, it is on the little sparrow
And I know He's watching over you and me
Performed by Ms Mahalia Jackson
Lyricists: Civilla Martin & Charles Gabriel
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group