Vision

A Native American Story Illustrating our Ministry Vision

One day a baby Eagle accidentally fell from his mother's nest.

The fall did not kill him, but he was badly hurt...and easy prey!

But then a kindly mother Prairie Chicken happened by,

took pity on the wounded Eagle,

and carried him back to her home to nurse him back to health.

Now it took a long time for the young Eagle to heal,

so he grew up with his Prairie Chicken brothers and sisters;

and like them, he learned to run around on his two legs

and peck in the dirt for seeds and grubs -

though they never really satisfied him.

Every once in a while, the young Eagle would look up to the sky

and see these magnificent birds, soaring the heavens with their great outstretched wings -

"Oh how I wish I could fly like them," the Eagle would think wistfully to himself.

Something within seemed to draw him to the skies.

But then he'd think with a sigh, "But alas, I am only a Prairie Chicken, and that's all I'll ever be",

and he'd lower his head and go back to running around on his two legs,

pecking in the dirt for seeds and grubs.

Well, time passed, month after month, year after year,

and the Eagle finally grew old and died;

and he never did spread his great wings to soar the heavens as his Creator had intended for him.

We believe our Creator

intends for us to be Eagles,

not Prairie Chickens.

     We are meant to become
          all that God wants for us to be
                in a fulfilling and happy life.

We are meant to soar above

the debilitating restraints of addictions,

the effects of past abuse, and

the limitations that would rob us of

the full experience of God's intended life
for each of us.

Eagle Wings Ministries