Laugh, Kookaburra, Laugh

Whoa! I have not blogged in over a year. I forgot why. I think I let myself get discouraged because no one has commented on my entries. Well, I was going to create a completely new one for I thought this one had been shut down. But I like the design of it so much that I will keep it and endeavor to not let discouragement stop me from blogging.

The reason that I want to blog today is that the song "Kookaburra Sits on the Old Gum Tree" kept running through my mind, annoying me to no end. Usually, that's one of the ways that God speaks to me. So I decided to do some research on kookaburras so that perhaps the song will stop playing in my head. 

The first thing that I found out about that song is that it was written by Marion Sinclair in 1932. She received inspiration for the song during church and dashed home to write it down. Wow! God gave her that song! But why would God give her a song about a dumb bird? Was the song prophetic? Then I found out that she entered the song in a competition and it won! Then she sold the rights to the song and used the money to help purchase a camping ground that later became Britannia Park in Australia. So is God telling me to enter one of my songs in a competition? 

Nothing spectacular about the park other than it's a camping ground. I do feel led to purchase land to be used as God dictates. Perhaps God is encouraging me that this desire to own land is from Him.

The song did become an instant hit and well loved all over the world. Is God telling me that one of my songs will meet with equal success?

Let's look at the lyrics:

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,

Merry merry king of the bush is he.

Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,

Gay your life must be!

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,

Eating all the gum drops he can see.

Stop, Kookaburra, stop, Kookaburra,

Save some there for me!

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,

Counting all the monkeys he can see.

Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,

That's not a monkey, that's me!

OK, the kookaburra is a kingfisher that lives in Australia and New Guinea. The reference to "Laugh, Kookaburra" is due to the bird's song sounding like anywhere from hysterical, merry laughter as coming from the Laughing Kookaburra to maniacal laughter coming from the Blue-winged Kookaburra. They are carnivorous and at times may steal meat from unsupervised barbecue pits! How funny! They may like living in Texas. Kookaburras are territorial and mark their territory by singing in groups. Huh, interesting. Perhaps God is trying to give me a revelation about marking spiritual territory with singing. The words that mainly plague me are "Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh". Perhaps God IS telling me to mark spiritual territory by singing. One of my childhood nicknames was "songster" for I sang all of the time, irritating my siblings. God once told me that nicknames were largely prophetic even if they were meant to demean. Another nickname given to me by my darling siblings was "bald eagle", which was definitely meant to demean me. It was given to me for I gave myself bald spots due to the hair plucking symptom of the trichotillomania that I have. However, the eagle is used symbolically to refer to a prophet, which I just happen to be. Is God CALLING me a kookaburra? 

If God is telling me that I am a "kookaburra", am I the Rufous-bellied Kookaburra? The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra is unusual for a kookaburra for it likes the shelter of the rain forests and not open country like the other kookaburras. It also lives in pairs whereas the other kookaburras live in family groups. Are my husband and I a pair of Rufous-bellied Kookaburras? Or am I the mysterious Spangled Kookaburra with it's strikingly black and white spotted head and vividly electric blue wings and tail? The colors black and white are often used to describe prophets. Perhaps I am the small Blue-winged Kookaburra who was at first overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra. I am often overlooked and others do become confused about me. Interesting, they have been known to wait for and snatch insects being flushed out by bushfires and live in groups of up to twelve. Twelve means divine power. Or I may be the Laughing Kookaburra who had previously been named as the Laughing Jackass or the Giant Kingfisher. Laughing Kookaburras mark their territories by singing a few at time. If a rival group answers them then the whole family will fill the air with their singing which has been known to be quite startling. They also may eat venomous snakes by grabbing them by the head and dropping them from a great height. What an interesting bird! 

The "old gum tree" refers to the Eucalyptus Tree, which produces an oil that is used as a natural insecticide. They have been called water-suckers and used to drain swamps of their water.