Songbirds, such as sparrows, don’t have much of a chance to live long lives. Predators kill 70 percent of them before they reach old age.

How I hated to read about that. Sweet singing little birds’ lives snuffed out, always having to worry about being killed. Awful way to have to live.

How I hate that part of nature. How I wonder why a Creator set things up like that.

If I didn’t believe in a benevolent God, it would be easier to accept the tragic deaths of little singing birds. Though I wouldn’t like it, I’d reason that’s just the way it is.

But it saddens me that those little birds don’t have much of a chance in life, and always have to be fearful that a lurking predator is going to end them forever.

And I hate how there is so much carnage in nature.

Bob Boyd