hope that shines

African Harrier Hawk

Watercolor found on: http://www.etsy.com/listing/112882999/watercolor-african-harrier-hawk?ref=usr_faveitems

 

God gave me a thing for hawks.

 

Since the start of our Ethiopian adoption process, God gives me hawks. It is always while Colin or I am driving.

 

We/I will be listening to music and we will notice them perched up high in trees along the road. Sometimes they will be flying, but typically, they are in trees. And I always get the overwhelming sensation they were sent by God for me.

 

Usually, there will be at least two hawks on my drive, but this last Friday? 17. 17!

 

Perhaps it has been about a year ago I started seeing these hawks, maybe more. Colin and I have always wondered what they represent--why God placed them into our lives. Certainly before our adoption process, I never noticed one hawk, not one! I noticed plenty of crows, a few bald eagles, and several other types of birds.

 

Why hawks? And why now?

 

I found a neat description of a hawk that hit me as powerful:

 

Protecting and guiding, I am the messenger of hope that shines

My keen sense of vision is a beacon in time

Overseeing everything you dreamt about, believed with your heart, or once thought

I am the beauty within us all

I am the hawk

 

And so I stare at the beauty of the hawk and thank God for His message to me, of hope that shines.

 

What do you think the hawks represent?