Of chickens and Eagles....

Have you watched a chicken lately?  Especially an undomesticated one?  Chickens needs to scratch and scratch for something to eat.  Their heads are always down, they scurry from scratching place to scratching place hoping to find the juicy worm, something worthwhile.  They also never rest - always on the go!  I mean, the little titbits that they get in, hardly covers the energy spent by their frantic scratching!
Watching them from my window every morning has shown no change in routine.  It can become very tiring to watch them.  They scare easily.  The chicks scurry franticly after their mom, in a very nervous fashion......

Eagles, on the other hand, are in a total different class!  I like the Fish Eagle best.  Soaring high above the water, not even flapping his wings, swooping down to rise victoriously with a prize fish!  Nests are built in huge Baobab trees, high cliffs even!  They know the air currents and move effortlessly higher and higher!  Nothing escapes their keen eyes.  They rule the skies!  They are bold, fearless and fast.  Oh, to be an eagle!

I think in life you can be a chicken or an eagle.  You can choose to scurry from place to place, always looking just in from of you - no vision, no great plan - just surviving.
Or, you can strive to be an eagle - going places, flying high, looking up, knowing that there is a purpose for your life!  Not just surviving like the chicken, but absolutely thriving!

 Sometimes in very hard times, i barely survive, thinking this is the only way, but actually it is very tiring.  God wants us to soar!  High in His beautiful sky!  Knowing that there is more to life than little bugs in the dirt....knowing God has a plan for me, hope and a future! 

bella, slowly learning to spread my wings!