I’ve been a caregiver for over twenty years and recently I was sitting with my client who has a bird feeder at his window. On this particular day the birds kept going to the empty holes at the top of the feeder rather than the last hole at the bottom where the food was located. My client says to me as we are watching, “They keep going to the top because they don’t realize that the food is at the bottom.” Immediately a light bulb went off in my head and I thought to myself, the birds are so accustomed to going to the top where the food is overflowing, that when it moves to the bottom they get confused. As human beings we are the exact same way. God has told us and has shown us that a lot of times what we need is at the bottom, and sometimes we might have to go to “rock bottom” to get what He has for us and to perform at the level that He wants us to perform. When you look at the way society is right now, the people at the top are the ones who are hurting the most because they have more to lose. For people like me and others, we know what it’s like to hit “rock bottom.” We know how to switch gears when things are not always going and rocking and rolling at the top level, so we don’t suffer as bad. The pain that we feel is different than the pain of the people at the top, because they have gotten accustomed to going to the top, being at the top, and recognized at the top for who they are and what they have.
Sometimes we are like that little bird who doesn’t know how to go to the bottom where the food has fallen because we are familiar with getting our food from the top! But what happens when it’s all gone at the top? You do like those little birds and eventually realize that you need to go to the bottom to get fed. So don’t feel bad if you are at the bottom right now because God is preparing you to feed where He has the food. Don’t lose faith while we are in this pandemic! God will propel you back to the top.