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A NEST implies, suggests, so much.
A circumference in comfortable proportion to its inhabitants' size.
Warmth and softness: "For so He giveth His beloved sleep."
Pure air, bright sunshine; leafy shade sufficient to satisfy a very Jonah.
A windy branch whereon to rock safely. Wind and rain heard yet little felt. A storm, indeed, sometimes, but as the exception not as the rule.
Most of all by way of comfort a nest suggests an overhanging presence of love. A brooding breast sheltering its cherished nestlings. A love ready to confront death in their defence.
"While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
When "room" and way are too great for us, let us think of Him Who prepared our present "nest" and carries His little ones, and Who desires to see in each of us of the travail of His Soul and to be satisfied. And Who eighteen hundred years ago comforted His disciples, saying, "In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
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