Once there was a king who received a gift of
two magnificent falcons. They were peregrine falcons; the most beautiful birds
he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be
trained.
Months passed, and one day the head
falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying
majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its
branch since the day it had arrived.
The king summoned healers and
sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the
bird fly.
He presented the task to the member
of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the
bird had still not moved from its perch.
Having tried everything else, the
king thought to himself, “May be I need someone more familiar with the
countryside to understand the nature of this problem.” So he cried out to his
court, “Go and get a farmer.”
In the morning, the king was
thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his
court, “Bring me the doer of this miracle.”
The court quickly located the
farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, “How did you
make the falcon fly?”
With his head bowed, the farmer said
to the king, “It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where
the bird was sitting.”
We are all made to fly — to realize
our incredible potential as human beings. But at times we sit on our branches,
clinging to the things that are familiar to us.
The possibilities are endless, but
for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the
comfortable, and the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre
instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. Let us learn to destroy the
branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight!
When God, the Almighty takes
something away from you, He compensates it with something better, but only if
you are patient and seek His reward. Perhaps the falling oil prices is a
blessing in disguise.
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