I live in Arizona where the summers can get as hot as 118
degrees in the summer. Easy tasks can become momentary reminders to head back
inside to the safety of the air conditioning. Sweltering heat causes sidewalks
and roads to become mini stovetops where, if shoeless, you can literally burn
your feet.
I tell you this for a reason.
This past summer I was driving through my neighborhood and
became bombarded with the large amount of pigeons walking in the road, blocking
my driving path. Yes, walking.
I’d patiently wait for them to walk out of my way so I could
continue down the road. They’d look at me dumbfounded that I’d interrupted
their daily congregation in the middle of the road and slowly walk across the
street to the sidewalk.
Yes, again, I said walking.
Frustrated one morning, and running late to work, I found
myself yelling at the pigeons in the road as they scurried away, “Oh my
goodness! You CAN FLY! Why are you walking?!”
It was in that moment I learned a valuable lesson from the
pigeons.
It’s time to FLY.
I had to ask myself a few serious questions:
Where in your life are you walking, when you were built to
soar?
Where in your life are you scuttling around when you’ve got
wings to fly?
I thought of the pigeons. Made with wings. Given the
beautiful gift of flying. Yet, they scamper across hot (skillet temperature)
sidewalks and asphalt with their feet. Choosing to take the hardest path (and
hottest). Not utilizing the God-given gift to fly, even at the cost of their
own safety. I’ve seen plenty of pigeons die because they would rather walk out
of the street then fly.
Where in my life am I walking when I can be flying?
Where in your life
are you walking when you can be soaring?
It can be any part of you life—work, relationships, physical
exercise, emotionally, or, even spiritually. Ask yourself. Where am I walking,
when I can be flying in that area?
Don’t weigh yourself down with an endless to-do list of tasks
and excessiveness, instead, really analyze your life and the areas you can
improve. Then, take a deep breath and take one momentary move in that
direction.
But, don’t walk, my friend.
You’ve got wings of potential, talent, gifts, beauty,
laughter, friendship—a flair for life that no one else on this earth has.
It’s time for you to fly.
