It occurs to me that Satan is like a window.  He’s easy to see through, yet he is an invisible barrier into which the unwary can crash with fatal consequences.

Let me explain.

If you know that he exists, (and most people deny it), then it is easy to see through his tactics.  Though unseen, you know that he is there, and you avoid him and the situations and pitfalls that he puts in our paths.

I feel sorry for the birds that hit our picture windows.  It’s generally the robins.  Other birds seem to know that they can’t fly through our living room by going through one apparent opening and out the other, but robins never figure it out.  If we don’t close the drapes, they crash beak-first into the windows at 25 MPH.  The impact is fatal about 50% of the time.  It must be a terrible shock to be flying freely and to suddenly hit that invisible barrier.

Swallows are constantly darting, dipping, and swooping around, and will enter open buildings, yet they almost never crash into our windows.  They’re either wiser than robins, or are able to detect what robins can’t.

I took note of a Far Side cartoon.  It was in two parts.  The first picture showed a bird flapping its way toward a skyscraper that had but one window way up high.  The second picture showed the bird falling after having crashed into the window.

That bird was undoubtedly a robin.  Robins seemingly crash into windows on purpose.  There is lots of open space around skyscrapers, and such obstacles are easy to go around; but some robins just choose to hit the windows.

There is lots of information around us about the dangers of illicit drugs, pornography, unkindness, greed, and unbridled passions.  We have all observed in others the negative effects of each of these evils, and may have even had personal experiences with some of them.  We all know that the dangers are there, yet some robins among us are seemingly insistent upon running into the windows.

A large percentage of the dead robins that I find on my porch have spotted breasts.  They’re the young ones.  They only recently learned to fly, and their parents failed to teach them about the dangers in the world.

Contrariwise, I never find young swallows dead on my porch even though I allow their parents to raise them in nests up under the eaves.  I like to imagine it’s because their parents take pains to teach them before they leave the nest.  Every morning I awaken to their pleasant chattering outside my door.  The parents are telling their children everything they need to know in order to be successful and happy in their world.

Pity the young robins of this world who receive no such teachings, and who only learn the hard lessons of life by running into windows and hopefully surviving the impacts.  I see lots of such delinquent parents in the world.  They raise delinquent children.

Thank goodness for diligent parents who conscientiously teach their young ones.