Monday Meditation: Storms Bring Out The Eagles But The Little Birds Take Cover

 

 

 

"But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up
 with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk, and not faint."
(Isaiah 40:31)

 

 

Soaring At Sunrise
Image courtesy/StockCake
 

 

 

When the "storms of life" gather darkly ahead,

I think of these wonderful words I once read

And I say to myself as "threatening clouds" hover:

Don't "fold up your wings" and "run for cover",

But like the eagle "spread wide your wings"

and "soar far above" the trouble life brings.

For the eagle knows that the higher he flies,

The more tranquil and brighter become the skies...

And there is nothing in life God ever asks us to bear

That we can't soar above "On The Wings Of A Prayer,"

And in looking back over the "storms you passed through",

You'll find you gained strength and new courage, too,

For in facing "life's storms" with an eagles wings

You can fly far above earth's small, petty things. 

 

 

"Storms Bring Out The Eagles But The Little Birds Take Cover" 
(1975)
Helen Steiner Rice
(1900-1981)
American Christian writer and poetess
Often referred to as the"poet laureate
of inspirational verse".