Why Do Birds Chirp At Night – Spiritual Meanings:
It is about transition
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?” – Isaiah 43:19
The chirping of birds at midnight signals transition.
Birds are indicators that something big in my life is going to move.
That chirping speaks to me as a call for transformation.
The darkness represents the unknown.
When birds sing at night, it indicates that even in the darkest of hours, a new dawn is breaking.
Hearing the night birds sing teaches patience and that everything has its right time.
It is about ancestral spirits
“The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” – Romans 8:16
Birds are referred to as the messengers from Spirit, especially in various cultures that link birds with messages coming directly from our ancestors.
Birds chirping at night can be a message from ancestors.
Spiritually, I have come to understand that birds are our earthly connection to the spirit.
Their meaning as messengers function on both a terrestrial and spiritual level-communinication between the physical and the ephemeral.
It is about inner reflection
“Be still, and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10
The night is a time for introspection.
As such, bird chirping is another push into more profound reflection.
It has occurred to me that the superstitious act of listening to birds chirping at midnight reflects the way I listen to myself inside.
The silent world that surrounds me beyond the “mind clutter” and ponderous state of mind, which is required for spiritual seedlings to sprout.
This evaluation of myself is important in spiritual growth.
The birds chirping at night are echoing my inner voice to stop and think about where I have come till now in this journey.
The birds are not there to distract me but to waken some instinct within.
It is about the unseen
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” – Romans 10:17
Birds chirping are whispers of the unseen.
The laws of the universe work in mysterious ways.
The majority of communication from my soul to me happens subtly via symbols and sounds that are disregarded by the analytical mind.
I know that I listen differently to my spiritual makings of the night.
The chirping by the birds at this time, when all is dead quiet, is but one way our universe communicates to me so subtly.
And just maybe that nighttime birdsong helps me to listen for the quieter voices of spirit.
Everything starts with the little, unimportant sounds.
It is about faith
“Walk by faith, not by sight.” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
The dark represents an area of low visibility, one that is ambiguous. And the darkness falls when birds sing.
At that time, I must walk in faith, not knowing what the future holds for my life but alive to keep marching in a faint-hearted declaration of life.
The birds do not fear to sing in the dark, for they know, it will be light again.
On my quest, I have found that the sound of birds at night is a symbol to me of faith in what my eyes cannot see.
Life tends to bring me to a place of uncertainty, and the Universe invites me to drop into the unknown, knowing I will come out on the other side.
It is about stillness
“Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means.” – 2 Thessalonians 3:16
The voice of the bird becomes is a reference of attention.
Birds chirping in the night to bring me back to here and now.
The sound was nowhere near rushed or out of control. It only exists at the moment, undistracted.
This is a lesson in itself.
When we are fully present — without the limitations of past or future thinking — this is when true spiritual connection occurs.
It is about action
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” – Philippians 4:13
The nighttime chorus of a lone bird singing is an omen that it is time to step up in my spiritual life.
This is a wake-up call for me to get out of any spiritual sleep and move to my mission.
All of which, this warm hearted voice has been heard through all the facets of my life.
For me, hearing the birds at night means it is time for me to take my spiritual work up a notch.
The bird singing is a message coming through that I need to act.
It is about awakening
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:5
Birds chirping are like a lighthouse, warning me that I was going through an awakening.
The dark is the un-searched parts of my conscious and unconscious.
So the birds’ song is to become a guiding light for us, that we might travel upon this spiritual path of unfolding.
When birds begin to sing in the quiet of the night, it is usually a summons to take notice of the changes going on within my mind.
It may well be a time when I begin to grasp the why of my soul-expansions, my relationship to the higher power or where I fit in other dimensions.
The chirping at night is not just a trite background noise but an important sign that I must remain present and aware as this birth of light continues.
The night is not a scary place anymore, it turned into an inner space for enlightment.
It is about endurance
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” – George F. Kennan
For a bird to sing at night, when everything in the world around it is still and quiet, is no small feat of strength or will.
A spiritual lesson that I must keep going, keep singing my song when the world seems against me, where the reality of haunting fear is looming around me.
My practice must have picked up on this somewhere along the way because now, when I breathe, it is us who chirp as the sun sets and the loneliness sets in.
Spiritually, those chirps at night help my soul journey, including endurance.
The spirit is the bird that still sings in the dark.
It is about the mystery of life
“Beauty is the mystery of life.” – Agnes Martin
The mystery of life is captured by the song of a bird in the dark.
This resonates with my path, as it has been clear to me by now that mystery is a beauty in and of itself where spiritual paths are concerned.
The bird’s song during the night brings home to us those incalculably deeper strata of life that I’m unable to apprehend.
A spiritual call to welcome the unknown, to face uncertainty with wonder not fright.
And life is not perfect and does not always provide instant answers or quick results, instead of immediately chasing solutions, sometimes I need to sit with the questions and allow them to unravel on their own accord.
The chirping in the dark is an example that not everything unfolds before me, either spiritually or otherwise.
As much as I want to control everything and everyone down to the why of things, there is beauty in letting go and surrendering to the mystery of life.
Those little bird songs tell me that somewhere in the beyond, there is a reason it all exists.
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