Under Your Wing
When a storm approaches, a mother hen gathers her baby chicks under her wing. She wants to keep them safe.
If you take people under your wing, you care for them.
You batten down the hatches during life’s storms by:
- Protecting them
- Loving them
- Meeting their needs
Taking someone under your wing may require little or much time.
- Older students tutor younger students.
- Bosses guide new workers.
- Friends take care of a sick friend.
- Neighbors offer a place to stay when another neighbor loses her home.
- Relatives rear a child when its parents die.
Look for opportunities to care for a hurting world.
- Show love in all you do.
- Help the hopeless see light at the end of the tunnel.
- Give financial help to people going through hard times.
- Show respect to everyone, whether you agree with them or not.
- Treat people the way you want to be treated.
- Don’t get mad as a wet hen when you don’t get your way.
- Ask God to guide you in all you do and say.
“[God] will cover you with His feathers;
you will take refuge under His wings.
His faithfulness will be a protective shield” (Psalm 91:4 HCSB).
Thanks to Carole Fite for the suggestion and to Pam Barnes Harlow for the photo.
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