Metro Stops and Meeting Needs

It is still hot in September, really hot, and most days we look to find some shade and/or a cool place to study where we won't get totally sleepy right away. The nice thing about city living and using the metro is that you have lots of options on where to go. Between our metro stop and where we get off to go to language school there are several nice choices.

One day, after class, we got off at the metro stop that comes out at Campo Pequeno, an area of the city with the building of the bull fights. We walked around until we found a park bench in the shade and then got our books and homework out. It was still hot enough, with very little wind, for us to have trouble staying focused and we began to watch some of the things going on around us.

We watched as some birds began to gather at a place on the cobblestones where the sprinkler that was watering the grass was getting water on the walkway and pooling up some. The pigeons were quite comical as they sat in the sprinkling water, taking a little shower like we would, opening up one wing and then the other and holding them out and up so the water could get under their wings. Other little sparrows would come right down among the pigeons and roll around, soaking up as much water as they could.

It made me think about how the overflow of water was being used by the birds, water not intentionally meant for them, and how our own lives should be a little like that. Out of the overflow of our walk with Christ, needs around us will be met and some of those needs we will not be ones that we even thought about meeting.

Campo Pequeno