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Texts: Revelation 5, 13
On Wednesday I walked home for lunch as I often do. I went to the back of our yard to open the gate on the coop for our four chickens to roam around the larger fenced in area. As I approached I noticed the loose soil and scattered feathers, a clear sign that a night invader had dug its way in and made a kill. This was not the first time this has happened, and as I buried the remains of the chicken I asked the same kinds of questions I’ve asked before. I wondered what kind of animal had done the killing. I wondered if there’s even more we need to do to protect the chickens, or if this is just an inevitable thing that will happen from time to time. I wondered if more protection for the chickens equated to a more prison-like existence for them. I wondered if humans had never domesticated animals if this chicken, in its more wild incarnation, would have been safely roosting overnight up in a tree somewhere in southcentral Asia. Or if it would have been fierce enough to at least ward off the predator, rather...