Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Robert Howson
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
If you’re anything like me, you love recalling stories which bear out the fact that you were right. The following is such a story. My friend and I were out looking for birds to photograph in the eastern part of Washington. Somehow or other our conversation got around to a common bird we had photographed once before on a nest. My memory placed the bird on the small backroad we were then traversing while my friend was sure it was further east in the state. We enjoyed exploring the area where the road came to an end, enjoying the sound of the nearby creek.
Returning along the road we had earlier traversed, I became more confident that this was indeed the proper location where we had earlier found the nest. Rounding a corner my conviction became solidified as the pine I remembered came into view. My pièce de résistance was assured when upon getting out of the car we spied a Western Wood-Pewee building a nest on the exact same limb as the afore mentioned species had done a couple years earlier. Voila!
Oh, that it were always that easy. But our memory has proven to be far less than dependable, and even when we know what is right, we often find ourselves wandering. David had the right idea and penned these words found in Psalm 25:4 “Show me the path where I should go, O Lord; point out the right road for me to walk.” (Living Bible) This same idea is repeated in Psalm 119:35 “Make me walk along the right paths, for I know how delightful they really are.”
Delightful — that’s a good word to describe a walk with the Lord.