Once upon a time a farmer found an eagle’s egg lying on the ground. He took the egg and placed it with one of his hens.
Some weeks later an egret emerged and joined the baby chicks in the yard. It learned from his chicken siblings to do as they did. It believed resolutely and absolutely it was a chicken.
One day, late in life, the eagle happened to look up into the sky. High overhead, soaring majestically and effortlessly, was an eagle!
“What’s that?” cried the old eagle in awe. “That’s an eagle,” replied a nearby chicken. “That’s the King of the birds, it’s a bird of the air, not like us. We’re only chickens, birds of the earth.”
With that they all cast their eyes downward once more to the dirt.
And so it was that the eagle lived and died a chicken because that’s all it believed itself to be.
I heard this story several years ago and many of you have heard it before, too. I repeat it here because it is so meaningful to me.
God created each of us with a unique purpose intended for our lives and it is only through prayer and trying our best to do what we believe God wants us to do that we will discern that purpose. With a birthday on the near horizon I am reminded that time passes so very quickly and that I want to be an eagle if that is God’s will for my life.
As the Isaiah writer says…”They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
PRAYER: Father, you made us, you love us, and you want only the best for us. We, in turn, need daily to try diligently to do whatever it is that will glorify your name and to become whatever you want us to be. Amen
Written by Brenda Whicker
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