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One day a Prairie chicken found an egg and sat on it until it hatched. Unbeknownst to the prairie chicken, the egg was an eagle egg. Abandoned for some reason, and that’s how an eagle came to be born into a family of prairie chickens. While the eagle is the greatest of all birds, soaring above the heights with grace and ease, the prairie chicken doesn’t even know how to fly. In fact, prairie chickens are so lowly, that they eat garbage. Predictably, the little eagle being raised in a family of prairie chickens, thought he was a prairie chicken. He walked around, ate garbage and clucked like a prairie chicken. One day, he looked up to see a majestic bald eagle soared through the air, dipping and turning. And when he asked his family what it was, they responded. It’s an eagle, but you can never be like that because you are just a prairie chicken. Then they returned to pecking the garbage. The eagle spent his whole life looking up at eagles longing to join them among the clouds. It never once occurred to him to lift his wings and to try to fly. The eagle died, thinking he was just a prairie chicken. You were born to fly, but some of you think and act like prairie chickens because the world keeps telling you that’s what you are. God created you a little lower than the Angels. Do you ever feel like there’s something more to life than what you’re experiencing? Look up, lift your wings and fly. God wants you to be all you were created to be. You know who and what you are. You are born again through the living and enduring word of God. Now live that way. Spread your wings and fly today. God bless you, Captain Ken Chapman.
