Lessons from a peacock

Last weekend we enjoyed spending time in nature camping at our church retreat.    There was a mini zoo at the camp that in addition to more exotic animals like monkeys and a lion is also home to several peacocks.  They are quite beautiful large birds, and we enjoyed watching the males strut around with their shiny feathers.

But for all a peacock's beauty, it has an unfortunate trait.  When the peacock opens its mouth to speak, it sounds like a dying fog horn.

The neighboring birds sing and chirp in a beautiful morning symphony, but the peacock bellows and whines in a rather unpleasant voice.

Luckily for the peacock, it doesn't have anything important to share with the world that necessitates beautiful words.  But you and I are different.

We have a message to share with our words and our lives about our Redeemer.  Our song may not always be as lovely as what it was meant to be, but let us not be found like the peacock, beautiful to behold, but unpleasant to engage.