Faith In The Caged Bird

In 1492 Christopher Columbus an explorer, navigator and colonizer from Italy sailed West on the Atlantic Ocean to declare that the earth was round when everybody else said the earth was flat! Although Columbus’ speculative proposal was to reach the East Indies by sailing westward; yet his daring and bold audacity of hope of exploration led to the discovery of the New World! In 1904 Mary Bethune wanted to start a college for African American girls but she only had $1.50. She had no desks, she had no ink pens to write with, she had no blackboard and she only had $1.50. Yet her audacity of hope to believe in her dreams has now given birth to the world-recognized Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Florida. She said later on, “I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in

The cage bird struggles to learn the melody, rhythm and words because the cage bird is easily distracted. In the full light of day, and in hearing of the music of other voices the caged bird will not sing that song that the Master seeks to teach him. He learns a snatch of this thrill of that, but never a separate and entire melody. But the Master covers the cage and places it where the bird will listen to the one song he is to sing. In the dark, he tries and tries again to sing that song until it is learned. Then he breaks forth in perfect melody. The bird is brought forth now into the light. The song that he learns in the dark, now he is able to sing it in the light. You see it was in the dark that the cage bird is able to concentrate, learn and grow. Thus God deals with His children. He has a song to teach us, and usually we learned that song amid the shadows of affliction. Faith grows through adversity. It grows through our battles and our beliefs. Faith grows through both our trials and triumphs. Faith grows through both our ups and downs. The audacity of hope grows through the