A Soft Place to Fall
I recently watched a Planet Earth special of breath-taking scenes of nature played out in daily life. One scene in particular struck me. It was a mother wood duck in a forest waiting for her babies as one by one they bailed out of their sky-high nest. These ducklings appeared really small with fluff instead of feathers. The nest was way up in a tree and the little ducks fell instead of flew to the ground. They landed in a big pile of leaves, bouncing and doing back flips, yet seemingly uninjured. I wondered if Momma Duck or God or both, […]