The birds and butterflies of the air...

After sailing on the Sea of Galilee and seeing the ancient boat, we went to the site where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7.

There's a beautiful Catholic church built on the location, but what really struck me were the gardens all around. There were flowers everywhere, with butterflies fluttering about. Birdsong filled the air, and I was struck in wonder at the beauty all around me.

It gave new meaning to me to the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:27-34:

"26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."