Jade

I am really happy. God is good. It has been such a blessing to be reunited with my past friends. I guess I should not say past friends but my friends from the past that are now in my present. NOW! One of the reasons that I have not been blogging is because I have been laying wood floors in my house….. OK! yes I am being cheap. I wanted them, I could afford the material but not the labor…So I bought the materials and I provided the service to myself. In other words I put the shits down myself. At any rate, that is not the moral of this entry. The moral of this entry is that I was reminded of a story of chickens and the eagles. In retrospect, I was familar with the concept of the this story but the way in which this parable was re-presented to me made me reflect on my life. The story is as follows..

In life you have two types of birds (people) eagles and chickens. If we look at the characteristics of chickens we must remember that chickens don’t fly very high…in fact they only fly a couple of feet off of the ground. They only eat shrubs and worms…things that are close to the ground. Their vision is limited to what is directly around them. If you really think about it, chickens are always some where couped up with other chickens. Since many people in the world eat chicken I guess it is safe to say that they are waiting on the slaughter and don’t even know it.

Now eagles on the other hand are totally different. Eagles fly high and have a broad veiw of all things. Eagles fly alone. Eagles are strong and resourceful. In relating these things to life and all of the people around me. I would much rather be an eagle flying high and seeing all than a chicken. In the end when it all comes down to it, the eagle will always catch the chicken and devour it because chickens have limitaitons that eagles don’t have.

I told a similar version of this story to my kids. My four year old picked right up on it. She now tells the sixteen year old things like "eagles don’t speak those types of things", "eagles don’t make those types of choices" etc. It is my prayer that as life goes on that my children grasp an even deeper understanding of this parable and live their lives as eagles as opposed to chickens. I have faith…I know it’s possible.