The Curious Case of the Indignant Ostrich

"Why the title?", you might ask. This bird would walk towards the crowd and seem to like to bask in the attention while its partner was busy rolling a fake egg up and down its beak. And at the same, purse its beak as depicted. If it is possible to purse a beak. So there you have it.

So the party ran its course and finished a good hour ahead of schedule. All was good and I did not walk away with the tv or the Wii. That was good too. I was content and that's what matters. =)

So a walk through Jurong BirdPark brought us to many kinds of birds. Duh. Flightless birds who descended from dinosaurs, birds of pray, hornbills who were blowing their horns, crowned pigeons, graceful swans, pink and not-so-pink flamingoes, and my favourite, the penguins. The list goes on. The list of God's creation goes on.

"By causing the creation to come into being by his word of power, God establishes it as part of his own vast kingdom. He thus establishes himself as the great King over all creation, without limits of any kind, and worthy to receive all glory, honour, and power in the worship of what he has created. ...
As God creates, he names what he creates, and this again is an expression of his sovereignty. 'The act of giving a name meant, above all, the exercise of a sovereign right. ... Thus the naming of this and all subsequent creative works once more expresses graphically God's claim of lordship over the creatures.' ...
In God's own creative work, he acts for the good of what he has made and not for his own selfish pleasure. For example, he creates a perfect home for humankind. And at every point in God's work within it, the creation is described as 'good' and 'very good'. Over this good creation, God calls the human 'ruler' to serve as steward or under-sovereign, to embody God's own care for, and protection of, his good creation un his own sovereign rule over the earth. Psalm 8:6 expresses this wonderfully: the glory of human beings is that God has made them 'ruler over the works of [his] hands.' It is impossible to read this as suggesting that humans are free to do what they like with God's workmanship. Above all things, the human caretakers are accountable to the divine Creator of the world entrusted to their care."

- The Drama of Scripture

So let us as people of God, use the authority that God has given us on this earth to take care of the environment and all it holds, which has been for generations and will be for generations.