On The Edge of the Ledge!

Let me compare America with the birth and growth of an eagle:

An eagle's nest weighs close to a ton.  The mother and father eagle line the nest with rabbit fur and feathers to make a soft and cushy lining for the baby eaglets to be birthed in, protected, provided for, and properly covered.  However, when the baby eaglets start to grow and its time for them to "leave the nest," the parent eagles remove the soft, cushy lining.

Next the mother eagle nudges her adolescents to the edge of a high cliff.  Then she PUSHES them over the cliff!  They start flapping their weak little wings and try to fly...but they keep falling!  So they cry out for help.  The mother eagle hears their cries and swoops down and carries them on her wings to safety.

America's soft, cushy life has been taken away.  We're now standing on the edge of the cliff (the so-called "Fiscal Cliff").  We're about to be PUSHED over the cliff.  Our only hope of survival and rescue is to put our trust in God (not in our government or in our finances)!

Over-and-over again the mother eagle takes them to the edge of the cliff and pushes them over.  This seems cruel, but it is the only way the young eagles will learn how to fly and soar above their circumstances and have victory over their adversaries.

"But those who wait (trust, obey and rely) on the Lord will find new strength.  They will fly high on wings like eagles...".  [Isaiah 40:31]

[Read:  Proverbs 24:10 and 16; John 10:10]