Catherine, Called Birdy

by Karen Cushman

“You are lucky, Little Bird, for you have wings. But you must learn to master them. Look at the baron’s hawk there on her perch. Just because she doesn’t flap her wings all the time doesn’t mean she can’t fly.”

How can we think ourselves made in the likeness of God when we act worse than beasts?

and yet for them exile was no exile. Wherever they go, they take their lives, their families, their people, and their God with them, like a light that never goes out.