On Eagle's Wings
High above my head, while running some errands in my local town, I notice an eagle cruise right over me. It's nothing uncommon for me to see these majestic birds that signify national strength resting in a tree all over this place. Perhaps it's why the original settlers of this area named this town and the nearby river that flows through it, Eagle River. They are everywhere, and it's not lost on me that so many people travel to my state to catch a glimpse of these incredible creatures and I get the chance to see them pretty much all the time. I'm constantly reminding myself that living here, I get to experience other's dream. And isn't that kind of the way life is anyway? We're often living through moments that someone else in the world is praying for and, to us, we think nothing of it. Break us, God, of our inattentiveness to the gifts already in our hands ! I can't help but shake my head at the irony as I watch that eagle gracefully spread its win...
