2 Peter 3: 8-13 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you,[b] not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.[c]

11 Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening[d] the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire? 13 But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Luke 9: 57-58

57 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

In case you were wondering, there are several types of Fox in Israel; I’ve been doing a little research.  One is the Rubles Fox which lives in the desert, which has its wild swings from the blistering heat of day and the cold that follows at night.  As adults, Rubles Foxes live alone in a den during the day and are active in twilight.  As adults they change their den almost every five days, their refuge from this harsh world where they live and the blistering threat of the day.  But when it’s time for them to have children they need a larger place to stay.  Their young are born blind and need almost six to eight weeks to be nursed by their mothers and so they need to create a place that is safe: they create a den, often under a rock or a tree, which needs to be large enough where both the parents and the kids can sit together, sometimes with more than one entrance to allow for options for evading in order to further hide their den.  A fox needs a den for a safe place for its young to grow.

There are over 500 species of birds that are known in Israel, from the great birds of prey that swoop to the smallest of songbirds.  The tiny green Bee-Eater makes its nest inside a deep tunnel.  The Blackstart builds its nest in a crevice of rocks.  The male Sparrow starts building its nest even before he finds a mate, with stems and roots on the outside, getting gradually softer as the layers go inward with dried grasses and then in the very center just feathers and papers.  It is here that the eggs are laid and the young are brooded and fed before they are able to face the outside world.  They create a nest, a place to protect themselves from predators, from the elements, from the harsh world, a safe place where their young can grow.

And if you want to think what it is we do in our country to prepare for a child, I warn you, do not go down the rabbit hole which is a baby gift registry in this country.  It is where new parents are faced with the overwhelming fear that without a state of the art baby bouncer, enough clothes to last them through toddlerhood and, I kid you not, a baby wipe warmer, that somehow we are not prepared, when in fact it is part of how our community tries to act, that we try to create this safe place for a new life to enter the world, creati