Friday, August 26, 2011

*a life changing sound

Early this morning as I approached the barn to feed the animals, I heard this loud alerting crow of the rooster.  We have two you know, and this particular crow came from Husan.  Once I was finished feeding the rabbits and the Dairy Queens, I headed back to the house for the camera. I had decided that this would be a great morning to record some images of our varied flock.  It seems I ended up with my eye and heart on the roosters this morning.


Knowing the story of Peter and the rooster, it is  hard for me to not think of that lesson when I am in ear shot of the crowing roosters.  The rooster quickly reminds me of God's loving kindness - for it is what Christ spoke of the night in the Roman soldiers took him away.  He clearly spoke to Peter about his denial and the rooster crowing. It played out just as He has spoke it the night before.  Peter indeed did hear that life changing sound just after he denied his Lord on the the third time.  That sound, it was the rooster's crow that Jesus spoke of, that pricked Peter's heart and drew him to repentance.  So now, when I hear the rooster crow it reminds me of His loving kindness.





Do you remember a time (depending on your age, that is) when you would see weather vanes with roosters adorning as part of the design?  In the 9th century the pope decreed that all churches must display the symbol of a rooster to point to the biblical account in which Christ claims that “the cock shall not crow” until Peter had denounced him three times (Luke 22:34). This proclamation helped to spread the weather vanes throughout Europe during that time.  Many of the ecclesiastical roosters were later made into weather vanes, due to their prominence on high church steeples in towns, and thus the classic rooster weather vane was established.  I have always loved the look of the rooster weather vane, and I now have this in my "Wish List" on Amazon.

I share this today at Farmgirl Friday's Blog Hop.

10 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing the story about the rooster in the Bible! I had completely forgotten about that! Since moving to the country I have grown to love chickens and roosters! We had to sell all of ours a while ago but we're hoping to get some more soon because I miss them terribly! And now, I'll have another reason to love the sound of a rooster crowing!

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  2. Gone Country, thanks for stopping by and your welcome! I love our 19 hens and 2 roosters, they are awesome. We thought we had 21 hens, but turns out we ended up with the roosters, I am so glad!

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  3. I love this post Lynnie!! Great reminder of God's grace. Your roosters are handsome fellas :)

    Blessings!
    Gail

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  4. Beautiful birds! I enjoyed your history lesson. I love the rooster weathervanes, but I'd never heard about their origin.

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  5. Gail and Teresa, thanks! We think they are pretty awesome too. I hope the both of you have a great weekend!

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  6. I have never heard the story about rooster weather vanes before. Pretty interesting. Your roosters are handsome fellows. :) I love waking up in the morning to my rooster crowing.

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  7. I have an older rooster "rooster cogburn" and he crows rather well...and loud. Then I have two 4 month old buff orphington roosters. They are kinda sad yet when they crow. they sound like a broken horn or something! very funny!

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  8. I have heard roosters before but I've never owned one. I remember hearing about the story in school (I went to a Catholic school.) and our school had a rooster weather vane. It was my favorite part of the school.

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  9. what a lovely post and beautiful photos! this story reminded my of my great grandmother who used gardening and animal tending to teach valuable Bible lessons. Such a nice post.

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  10. You crack me up.....if you go to my Amazon page and look in my wish list cart you will find a Rooster weather vane too!

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