In the few weeks leading up to Easter, my wife and I realized that we had a bird (or a few birds) living on her car. We came to this realization because of the amount of bird poop that started accumulating on the car. Trust me, it was embarrassing. On the roof, doors, side review mirrors, hood, everywhere.

I started asking friends what I should do. Some solutions were actually very creative. Things like putting black pepper on the car, and even buying a fake owl to be place on the car to produce a “scarecrow effect” (I guess it would be “scareowl effect”). I actually tried parking the car on the other side of our house, but it didn’t work.

Then, when I had kind of given up, the bird went away. No more droppings. Awesome, I thought, but we weren’t quite done with our little friend yet.

Forward a couple of days to Easter Sunday. It was a beautiful sunny day, and Kris said we should all go outside for a bit and enjoy the incredible world God created. My wife decided to follow up on the recommendation, took the kids outside for a few minutes and found the scene below (see pictures) in the tree that lives right next to the spot where her car is parked everyday.

Funny thing is that leading up to Easter, I felt like God had been pressing on me that if I just look forward towards the hope that awaits me, I can get through all kinds of things in life. I was awakened to the fact that Jesus himself was only able to get through His suffering on the cross because He knew that life and redemption awaited Him on the other side of it.

It is no different with us. Sometimes God lets us go through some crap (in this little case, the crap was literal) to show us something beautiful in the end. If we just keep that in mind, we will be able to make it through the suffering, and see the value in it.

All this because of some bird poop on a car. Don’t you love how God can be so creative in teaching us lessons? I sure do.