“People will be self-centered…Have nothing to do with people like that” (II Timothy 3:2,5).
After Church, a woman went to the zoo. As she was walking around the various animal sites, she came upon an eagle in a cage. She marveled at the eagle’s powerful, beautifully-feathered wings that were meant for flying. And, as she stood there, she remembered those words from Paul’s Letter and she heard herself saying, half-aloud: “Made for the skies and crammed in a cage.” And she was reminded of the Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard, who told the story of a wild duck flying south for the winter…
While in flight, it looked down and saw a great pile of corn stacked up in a barnyard. After swooping down for a closer look, it decided to spend the winter in that barnyard just eating corn. For months it did nothing but overindulge its own appetite. When spring came, the wild duck looked up and saw the other wild ducks flying back…
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