The Eagle

The Story
A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air. Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

My Message:
This story symbolises awareness of who you are and waking up to the reality of your greatness. It is time to see the light you are to yourself and to others, recognising that you are better than you know. It's time to wake up and realise how powerful you are as an individual and how much good you can do in the world through the choices which are given to you everyday. As you progress through life the more 'goodness' you create and express the closer you will come to understanding the true essence of who you really are, as we are all put on this earth to strive at perfecting our negative habits through doing good deeds and becoming better people, continually looking for the goodness within others. We are destined to great and amazing things, all of us! Make a choice today through action to express who you really are in a glorious positive way and you will be guaranteed to live a life of accomplishment and satisfaction.

May you have an incredible week!
Darren Zwiers

The Quote:
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~ Peter Marshall