A female swan with broken wing, named later Garip, which was rescued 1984 by the farmer Recep Mirzan in an empty field in Turkey’s western Edirne province, remained in the farm of its rescuer in the Karaagac region, bordering Greece, Ergin Yildiz and Robert Badendieck reported on February 8, 2021, on https://apnews.com. Just like the redeemed Christians, predicted in Revelation 14:4, the swan follows today its rescuer wherever he goes. And we could understand what love, thankfulness, friendship and faithfulness, as God’s capacities, mean through the behavior of a swan, according to Romans 1:20, first part. In addition, the thankfulness and the faithfulness are healthy without doubt as well, because the lifespan for a swan in the wild is 12 years, while in that case the female swan Garip lives even longer than the usual lifespan of 30 years the swans could reach in protected environments.
The city of Edirne, known under the Bulgarian name Odrin and the Greek name Adrianoúpolis as well, has a population of 180.901 inhabitants, as of the 2020 census, on an area of 844 km².
The female swan Garip and its today 66-year old rescuer Recep Mirzan; a photo by https://apnews.com.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
