This story is perplexing at first and somewhat strange, but it's these characteristics that make it so interesting. It speaks of deep truths through simple language that children can understand. The story is about a young man, Albert, who is afraid to go outside because of the bad sounds. Albert spends his days doing meaningless tasks like cutting newspapers and writing post cards he never sends. One day this all changes when he sticks his hand out the window to check the whether. Just as he is about to pull his hand back through the window a robin plops a stick in his hand and starts to build her nest. Albert ends up holding the nest until the baby birds are hatched and ready to fly out of the nest. For a whole week, he sleeps standing up and gets his meals from the mother robin.
This experience completely changes Albert-reflecting the truth that no human can ever be happy or complete until they learn how to love-how to give and how to forget themselves. Albert found freedom when he realized his connection to all living things, discovering his ultimate destiny was to love and be loved. To love is to lay down one's life for the life of another. For Albert it was giving up sleep and comforts of food and daily life. Love will always cost you something, and true love is unconditional. Scripture says that there is no greater love than this, that a person lay down his/her life for the life of another. Jesus Christ is the perfect example of this love- "For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
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