Eagles.

Curse God and die.

I am not sure if its really a part of the Bible or not, but I heard it said that Job's wife when sick of Job's trials stated, curse God and die.

This week someone in my life actually asked me to renounce my faith.  They said that it's too hard to watch me walking through this year.  I can understand that, from a distance watching or reading my blog it's a lot of heartache, but never.  I will never renounce my faith in God.

Last night I was relaxing after work and I closed my eyes....I laid back on my bed, drifting in and our of sleep, texting Melissa off and on, when the Isaiah 40:30, 31 came to my mind--I've added 29 as well:

He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
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.

So, while I am thinking about majestic and strong Eagles, I kinda got stuck on that thought.  Eagles. So, I went and did a little research and this is what I found.  They aren't so majestic and amazing, they are rather terrible...

• Eagles are powerful fliers but rely on thermals convection currents to gain speed.  
• They have a nasty habit of kleptoparasitism--which means that they wait for someone else to prepare food before they will come along and take it.
• They are shy
• They are not good for public display.  
• They mate for life.
• The parents take turn hunting for food and taking care of the nest.

Sounds a little like me....

Then I read this:  The molting process:

• They begin to lose their feathers.
• Their beak and claw alter as well.
• It will walk like a turkey--it has no strength to fly.
• They will molt in a valley.
• Calcium builds up in their beaks so they can't hold their heads up.
• They lose their desire to eat.  
• Molting Eagles will peck at each other, occasionally killing another Eagle.
• At this time, they will choose some area of a mountain range and will sit in the sun.
• Other "older" Eagles will come and drop food for the molting Eagles.  Eagles that have gone through the molting process already.
• The "older" Eagles will fly over head, screaming.  Encouraging the molting birds.
• Some eat and recover, others will roll over and die.

Kent and I are choosing to eat and recover.  After the last car accident I could feel this division between us, and I knew we were standing at a precipice of our relationship and our lives.  Either we keep walking through Hell, or we give up.

After 33 years of being a Christian and 25 years of marriage all the "stuffs" we have had to go through, I can't see a reason to give up now.

We are definitely under a spiritual attack, we know it.  We are praying through it.  We will not, (Satan...are you reading?  Are you listening?) We will not, give up.

So, we put one foot in front of the other.  We proclaim our faith boldly.  We stand side-by-side united in this fight.

So, today, I feel like crap.  I am supposed to be meeting a friend for coffee and everything in my body is telling me to go home and go to bed....but Satan, she needs to hear about God and see Jesus and I may be the only Jesus she sees today, so (slow clap) nice try Satan...nice try.

For my own part. I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his living honestly...Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District.--Ben Franklin