Spiritual Direction: Bells and Blackbirds

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A few summers ago, I was sitting outside in the evening and noticed a few blackbirds here and some there, all flying north. It went on for an hour or more. There was not a huge group in each overhead flight, but enough that over the hour, I began to wonder what was going on.

I did some quick Googling and discovered it’s co…