The Call and the Response
On learning to answer | The Word in the Wild, Epiphany 2, Year B
On the first morning of the New Year, I went outside in the pre-dawn dark and listened. It didn’t take long before I heard it, a melodic “chuck chuck.” It was the call of an American Robin, my first bird of the year. First birds are a tradition among birders. It can serve as an of omen, an ambiguous sign of what lie…