Back to the present, are you dealing with some storms in your life? Bad winds blowing.... How are you going to respond...
Yesterday, at the Unipower Seminar in Singapore of 26th May 2012, I spoke of 3 possible responses: Respond like a chicken, respond like a crow, or respond like an eagle.
The chicken, which would normally be scratching through the ground for crumbs, would, on realizing a storm is upon it, flutter its wings but cannot fly and then use its dainty legs to run into the safety and comfort of the barn. It would re-emerge when the weather has cleared up.
The crow would normally be rummaging for food among garbage, or picking up on the incidental food droppings on the ground. Like the chicken, it would respond only when the storm is upon it. It would then take off from wherever it is, with a sqwuak, flap its wings, and fly away, aimlessly for unlike the chicken, it does not have a barn to go home too. Homeless.
What about the Eagle response? The Eagle can sense a storm coming well before it breaks. On detecting a storm approaching, the eagle will fly to a high spot and wait for the winds to arrive. When the storm hits, it would set its wings against the winds, so that the winds will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle soars above. It does not seek to escape the storm. It simply takes on the storm and harnesses its energy to fly even higher than without the storm. To the eagle, storms are not a curse. Storms are a blessing, an opportunity to triumph in life.
So, what shall we be in the current or the next storm in life?
Run away scared, fleeing to the safety of our comfort zone, like a chicken? Or throw up our hands and complain, sqwuaking like a crow? Or shall we get ready to take on another storm and another, and let them lift us higher, like the eagle?
The choice is clear. But some of us may be scared of what it takes to take on the Eagle Being. We may be simply afraid of heights? Or whatever ... Before we try to fly like an Eagle, why not go to Eagle School? Ask around for a good one to enrol into ;)
The Eagle is an "extraordinary creature has great beauty, tremendous strength and skills. They inspire respect by man. Its flight is nothing short of dramatic. They glide in the air with movements more elegant than the waltz," writes Randy Vild in www.blowthetrumptet.org
We can learn so much from this beautiful, majestic creature, created by God to inspire Man to Be A Leader in Life. Of all the birds ever created, the Eagle was created as Leader, reigning undisputedly over all birds.
There are two things we can get and learn from the Eagle. First, its extraordinary way of dealing with adversity, its being in the face of storms, as described above.
Second, its incredible vision. The Eagle can see a fish swimming camouflaged under the surface of water even from several hundred feet above water. Its vision is at least four times sharper than a human being with perfect vision. It can pick out a rabbit scampering around within a 3 square mile area, while flying 1,000 feet high above open country.
Let's be inspired by the Eagle to have an incredible vision for our life - like, being able to see into the future a new reality that we would love to create and to design, with all the blessings that we already have with us in our being and in the tools placed in our hands to help us reign in life.
Let's be inspired by the being of the Eagle in the face of storms. Let's welcome troubles, welcome problems, welcome challenges, for we can harness the exceptional energy within them and use them to soar high above the ordinary, and live out the extraordinary life, enjoying breath-taking sights others cannot imagine.
1 comment:
You are my eag mentor :)
With the UNIPOWER school!
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