I woke up this morning to the sound of "uh oh" from my wife. She was in the living room/kitchen area of our hobbit hold. I knew that something was awry. I rushed out to see what was the "uh oh". She pointed to the cage where our 3 Australian Grass Keets resided. I quickly counted, 1, 2, 3... They are all accounted for. But she pointed to the bottom of the cage where one of the birds dropped an egg.

The very sight of that threw what I had read and perceived through the years we had the birds right out the window. Doubt entered in and I started to immediately question what I had read and gleaned from other bird experts. Yet, the proof was lying at the bottom of the cage.

We had been taught and read in just about every bird book that the male species of birds possessed brighter plumage, and that through this knowledge and the bright pink plumage of our 2 Bourkes parakeets that they were males. We obtained the 3rd bird, a yellow mutation Splendid parakeet from a breeder who told us that "he" was one part of a breeding pair at one time. Yet, the proof lay at the bottom of the cage that "at least" one of the birds were not who we thought they were.

We may, at one time in our lives experience "uh oh" moments. Where everything we held near and dear to us, everything we may have read on a subject, or everything we have been told was now a falsehood. They start us on the path to doubt and perhaps even mistrust for what we have perceived for so long. We doubt others, but even more so, we doubt ourselves.

But if we look at the situation in a different perspective, doubts can turn into faith and trust. Let's replay the scene from this morning:
  • We now know that at least one of our birds is a female because of the egg.
  • We form our decisions based on other mortals.
  • We rationalize and begin to realize signs that were there but we just would not believe due to what we based our decisions on.
  • We know that there are some in the animal kingdom who carry eggs that are male.
  • We still may question, but it is what it is. We know that there is purpose to everything. Even if it denies all human logic.
  • We accept the fact based on faith in a supreme being and move on with life.
In the scriptures, it states that our Heavenly Father created male and female in His image. He also created all manner of their own. And they, as Adam and Eve were commanded to "multiply and replenish the earth". In humankind, it is quite easy to visibly tell the difference, but in bird-dom, we can only tell of a surety of the species by a lab test - which we did not get. The birds were doing what became a natural God-given, if you will act that has been given to mankind through the ages - for male and female to multiply and replenish the earth. No matter what we have read in our latest magazines, or news. No matter what we are being told via the latest news. It is proof to me, yet once again of God's unchanging laws - that male and female created He. And no movements, no new laws made, and no self decisions can alter or trump God's laws. As a matter if fact, when we try to alter any of God's laws, we are "left alone to kick against the pricks". 

An epilogue to this story involving doing a little detective work, we have deduced which one is the egg-owner. It is our oldest bird - the bird formally known as Orville. The bottom of "her" where the egg would have come from shows signs of mild trauma. The bird, formally known as Orville is now Orvette. Or as I affectionately call her - Sariah; she who bore children at a late stage of her life. ;)

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