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While other birds attract attention, Pipsy alone can fly beyond ordinary time, reaching eternity where beginnings and endings have no meaning. Guided through a repeating journey to a massive desert rock, the narrative uses biblical passages to teach that 1,000 years are like a day in God’s timing, offering hope for grief and pain.","Literacy International:  \nPipsy  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish Spiritual  \nLiteracy International: Pipsy  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2018, Literacy International  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOnce there was a little brown bird. We had a dream and a story about him. We’ll just call him Pipsy. Pipsy was about the size of a man’s fist. Here is the story.  \nAround the world, there were many other birds just like him. Nobody wanted to talk about him. He wasn’t interesting.  \nBig white and black birds lived in far away lands of white ice. Others lived in green jungles. They had red, blue or yellow on their wings and bodies. Then there were some at home. They sang songs all day. People loved to hear and see them.  \nBut Pipsy was quiet. He didn’t try to have people hear and see him.  \nHe didn’t need to. Nobody knew that Pipsy could fly back and forth through time and above time into eternity.  \nWe often think that time is like a long line or journey. Time starts with the “Beginning.” Then it goes to the Garden of Eden, the wars and palaces of kings, the cross of Jesus Christ, World War II. Time reaches forward to God’s future world, and the “End.”  \nPipsy could go back until the world was made and he could fly forward until the world ended. And he could go above time, to a “place” where beginnings and ends have no meaning. We call that place “eternity.”  \nOne day Pipsy was hungry. He decided that his beak was just too dull to kill any food. In our dream we went flying with him, to see what he would do.  \nWe came to a huge desert rock. It was 1,000 meters high, 1,000 meters wide and 1,000 meters deep. Pipsy rubbed his beak on the rock. He made his beak as sharp as a knife and he was happy. He got his food. Then we left. That was a very long time ago.  \nWe went back again 1,000 years later. And again.  \nEach time we came to the rock, his beak made it just a tiny bit smaller. When the rock was gone in our dream, we had one day in eternity. In eternity, no one uses clocks. There aren’t any. We humans cannot measure eternity. Only Jesus can.  \nAfter we die, we will know about eternity.  \n2 Peter 3:8 says that with the Lord,“1,000 years are but a day (when it has passed) .”  \nJesus said,“I am the beginning and the end.”  \nPsalm 90:2 says,“From everlasting to everlasting Thou art God.”  \nGrief and pain can seem to go on and on forever. Heavy pain makes the seconds seem like hours. When we are in heavy sorrow or pain, we should think about God--1,000 years are only a day in His timing. Have courage, the sadness and pain will pass; there is hope and joy in your future if you trust in God.  \nTHE END  \nThis story is based upon a paragraph from THE STORY OF MANKIND by Hendrik Willem van Loon:“HIGH Up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.” Public Domain","cbCaincEv3hPO6Ro","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaincEv3hPO6Ro","pdf",148336,1,10,"English","en",105,"# The Quiet Bird\n## Time, Eternity, and Flying Above Time\n## The Desert Rock and Repeated Journeys\n## Hope Through God’s Timing","[{\"question\":\"Why doesn’t Pipsy try to be noticed like other birds?\",\"answer\":\"Pipsy is quiet and doesn’t seek attention; nobody knows what he can do, including flying back and forth through time toward eternity.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Pipsy interact with time in the story?\",\"answer\":\"He can fly back until the world was made and forward until the world ended, and he can go above time to a place called eternity where beginnings and ends have no meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"What lesson does the rock-sharpening repetition teach?\",\"answer\":\"Each visit makes the rock smaller, and when it disappears, the time in eternity is only one day. 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