Prairie Chickens and Eagles

[SedonaSun]

Our pastor read this story this morning and I was touched by it. It has spiritual applications, general life applications and yes, Virginia, RAW applications.

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An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All its life, the changeling eagle, thinking it was a prairie chicken, did what the prairie chickens did. It scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. It clucked and cackled. And it flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that's how prairie chickens were supposed to fly.

Years passed. And the changeling eagle grew very old. One day, it saw a magnificent bird far above in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

"What a beautiful bird!" said the changeling eagle to its neighbor. "What is it?"

"That's an eagle - the chief of the birds," the neighbor clucked. "But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him."

So the changeling eagle never gave it a second thought and it died thinking it was a prairie chicken.
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Does that make anyone else want to cry for the eagle??

It struck me that those of us with friends and family criticizing raw food, they're the prairie chickens. Whether on purpose or out of ignorance, they're keeping your inner eagle grounded when you were created to SOAR!!!

Which are you going to be....?

[spicyfull]

AWSOME.................AWSOME.................

[Sharon in Colorado]

That was beautiful!

:)

[Revvell]

That goes along with my message: Who would you be if society had not interfered? Thank you for the story. Very impactful.

Revvell