The Push

Dear lovely people,

Binda on his way home from the farm that afternoon met this baby eagle at the foot of a huge tree. He looked up and saw no sign of a nest on the tree then he picked the little eagle up and tried to make it fly. He realized the eagle was too young to fly on its own so he took it home telling the little eagle “I know you don’t look like a chicken but I will place you amongst my chickens when we get home” off he went.

Over time, the baby eagle learned to imitate the chickens. He could scratch the ground for nourishments and worms too. It grew up thinking it was a chicken. Then one day an eagle flew over the farmhouse. The eagle looked up and wondered, “What kind of animal is that? How graceful, powerful, and free it is.” Then he asked another chicken, “What is that?” The chicken replied, “Oh, that is an eagle. But don’t worry yourself about that. You will never be able to fly like that.” The eagle went back to scratching the ground very disappointed that it will never be able to fly like an eagle and it continued to behave like the chicken it thought it was.

Binda knew the eagle was born for something greater. He took the eagle to the top of his farmhouse one day and spoke to it: “you are an eagle and not a chicken so today, stretch forth your wings and fly.” The large bird looked at Binda and down into the chicken enclosure. It jumped from Binda’s arm onto the roof of the farmhouse and down to the chicken enclosure.

The next time, Binda took the eagle to a nearby mountaintop. They could not see the farmhouse nor the chicken enclosure from this new location. Binda held the eagle on his arm and pointed high into the sky above. He spoke: “you are an eagle and not a chicken so today, stretch forth your wings and fly.” This time the eagle stared skyward, straightened his large body, and stretched his massive wings. His wings moved, slowly at first, then surely and powerfully. With the mighty screech of an eagle, he flew away.

Are there any ways that you see yourself as a chicken and are not aware of your latent potentials? We tend to allow our past to define our future. When we do this, we miss life calling us to being our authentic self. You may have been brought up in a situation that limited your understanding of your potential, but it’s time now for the past to lose its hold on you. Don’t die thinking you’re a chicken. Soar high, just as you were meant to. Be all that you are meant to be! You could fly like an eagle. What would that look like for you? It’s time for you to take that next step and just fly!