Flight

Have you noticed the great variety of flying styles that birds exhibit.  Just this morning I spied sparrows flitting, with short bursts of flapping wings interspersed with brief coasting.  I watched a gaggle of geese noisily circle overhead with continual long beats of their wings until they held them outstretched and came in, like large cargo planes, to land and feed on cornstalks.  I saw crows thrust rapidly out of a tree with powerful athletic surges into the air.  Recently I watched the combination of grace and awkwardness that accompanied a large gray heron as it transformed from a statue-like form on the water's edge to a flying creature with long slow wingbeats that caressed the air.  We, too, were designed for flight.  We rise from the earth on spirit wings even when still living as men.  The Lord raises us up and out of ourselves to view life from His perspective that we might also rise above the problems that tangle us and see them from a higher point of view.  We have different styles of flight, as well.  But whether we pump rapidly or wing gently into His heavenly air we can be sure that He will lift us up!   Psalm 55:6 So I said, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest."   Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD       Shall renew their strength;       They shall mount up with wings like eagles,       They shall run and not be weary,       They shall walk and not faint.   blessings with wings, Rob Smith