Dear Father - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Birds are a symbol of the soul's ability to fly between Heaven and Earth.    As I am listening to Neil Diamond's album Jonathan Livingston Seagull my soul takes flight in joy with the music.  There are so many gifts like music provided to us by God to remind us of our ability to "fly."  What wonders could we achieve if only we believe in that ability.  Our consciousness reflected by our souls transcends space and time and we can network our minds with each other in joy to fulfill God's promise that love will prevail.  As in Psalm 91, the fowler lies to snare our souls preventing us from flying in joy as God intended we should.  But the fowler only has the power we grant it.  As the Psalm 91 says

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

    my God, in whom I trust.

In reference to this psalm, Emily Dickinson with her vision wrote -

The Orchard, when the Sun is on

—The Triumph of the Birds

When they together Victory make—

God has instilled in each of us the soul and love of Christ.  There is no reason to wait for him to come again, he is already here and this Earth does not bind us.  We can fly.  Jesus said to come to him like children.  We just have to believe.