Because of His Mercy...

"When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy." Titus 3:4-5 (NLT)

BECAUSE OF HIS MERCY...

I live,

I sing in the dark, like a bird,

like a mocking bird,

and my soul is safe,

because of his mercy...

In her’s and her husband, Michael’s website, Diane Porter writes, “Although all adult male mockingbirds sing during the day, only a bachelor sings at night. The night music that's driving you crazy is a love song…As soon as your mockingbird wins a mate, he'll stop singing at night.”

According to Mike of the website 10,000 Birds “It’s considered a sin to kill a mockingbird, or at least that’s what we’re told in the book of the same name. Why? As Harper Lee says, ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ ”

“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land.”Song of Solomon 2:12 (NKJV) ...Mercy is God’s love song. the bridegroom calls to his bride at night, he calls her into the light to share his life, because of his mercy.  ©Janet McDonald As written in an article by Lee on his Birds of the Bible blog “The turtle-dove is a name of endearment for one beloved…innocence, harmlessness, timidity, gentleness. The thought here is that of a people dear to God, now timid and alarmed. It is the prayer of a people beloved by God that he would not deliver them to their enemies.