Blackbird Singing | Coffee Sip Reflections

It has been a year of enduring the pandemic.

The promise of spring is currently in the air each morning.

In March last year we hung some bird houses in threes in our backyard. Tyler built the bird houses with the kids. We waited for some birds to make the houses their home. Blackbirds showed up and each morning in early spring I would watch them come and go from the bird houses, working to make it a cozy nest, while I sipped my morning coffee.

I started to think about the Beatles song, Blackbird.

I would sing it each morning or listen to it on repeat. The words really started to mean something to me.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

This morning, one year later, the bird houses have been moved to a different tree in our backyard because Tyler has since built the kids an epic tree fort in the other tree (so much happens in a year) but the birds are back to make the house a home again.

So this morning I turned on the song again and I thought about how I felt when I first listened to it. I thought about the beginning of the pandemic. I thought about the fear, I thought about the grocery shopping for a whole month at a time. I thought about the projects we did as a family. And I considered how my feelings have changed in a year.

I have moved from fear, to peace and awakening and the lyrics of the song speak to me in a more actionable way, encouraging me to take what have I left and keep moving forward in this dark world, focused on the light (Jesus).

Long ramble reflections from this mornings coffee sips.

I will remember where I started, I will remember the journey, I will praise God and seek the light all the days of my life.

xoxo

Heather