A cold winter evening, a man heard pounding against the door of her kitchen. He went to the window, and there he saw shivering sparrows, who needed a place where warm, stubborn and desperately against the glass door.
Touched, the farmer dressed warmly, left and went to the barn, where he opened the door wide, arranged straw in a corner and small crumbled crackers while charting a path in order to attract birds. But, alarmed by the presence of the farmer, the birds had fled in different directions and hid in the night.
He tried several tactics to attract birds, but still frightened by this big alien creature, but the birds failed to understand that the farmer wanted to help.
Finally, the farmer walked into his house and watched the birds condemned through his window. Suddenly he had an idea: if only I could turn into a bird, becoming one of them for a short time, I do not frighten them so. I could show them the way to the warmth and security.
A man who becomes a bird, but compared to what God made man? The idea of a sovereign being, as large as the universe he created, who agrees to be confined to the limitations of the human body has always been, and remains, difficult to believe for some people.
The farmer himself, to understand the principle of incarnation. Paul Harvey
History Told by Philip Yancey
