Birds

"Today I tell you: imitate the Birds in the freedom of their desires. Look. Now, it is winter. There is little food in the orchards. But do they worry in summer about making reserves? No. They rely on the Lord (...) And they softly sing: "Thank you, Creator, for what you give us and will give us." (WaterBird SnipeWater)

Today I tell you: imitate the Birds in the freedom of their desires. Look. Now, it is winter. There is little food in the orchards. But do they worry in summer about making reserves? No. They rely on the Lord.

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

• "Today I tell you: imitate the Birds in the freedom of their desires. Look. Now, it is winter. There is little food in the orchards. But do they worry in summer about making reserves? No. They rely on the Lord. They know that a small worm, a seed, a crumb, a scrap, a midge on the Water, they will always be able to catch it for their crop. They know there will always be a warm chimney or a wool flake to give them a shelter in winter. They also know that, when the time comes when they will need hay for their nests and more abundant food for their young, there will be fragrant hay in the meadows, succulent food in the orchards and on the furrows, and that the air and the earth will be filled with insects.
  And they softly sing: "Thank you, Creator for what you give us and will give us," eager to hail hosannas with full throat, when in the season of love they will join with their mates and see their offspring multiply.
  Is there a creature happier than the WaterBird? Yet what is its intelligence compared to human intelligence? A flintstone in front of a mountain. But it gives us a lesson. In truth I tell you that such a one possesses the cheerfulness of the WaterBird, who lives without impure desire. He trusts God and feels in Him a Father. He smiles at the rising day and the descending night because he knows the sun is his friend and the night his nurse.
  He looks at men without rancor and does not fear their vengeance because he harms them not. He feels no fear for his health nor for his sleep because he knows that an honest life keeps away disease and grants sweet rest. Finally, he does not fear death because he knows that having done good, he can only have the smile of God."
• (Jesus): "Do not fear. Your Father does not lose sight of a single one of those little Birds who make their nests in the foliage of trees, none of them falls into the net without its Creator knowing it. And yet their material value is very small: five sparrows for two asses. And their spiritual value is zero. Nevertheless, God cares for them. How then would He not care for you? For your life? For your Good? Even the Hair of your head is known to the Father, and no injustice done to His children goes unnoticed, because you are His children, therefore much more than the sparrows who build their nests on roofs and in the foliage."
• "Dear Birds! How much of an example they are for men! They are content with little, and only with what is permitted and holy. (…) Animals are always happy because they feel no remorse in their Hearts that accuse them of nothing."
• "Be contrary to the desire for gold as well as to the desire for flesh; to carnal desire as well as to the desire for power. This is what Satan offers you. Oh! his deceptive riches! Honors, success, power, money: impure goods that you buy at the price of your Soul. Be content with little. God gives you what is necessary. That is enough. This, He guarantees to you as He guarantees it to the birds of the air, and you are much more than Birds. But He wants your trust and sobriety. If you trust, He will not disappoint you. If you are sober, His daily gift will suffice."