Academic Year:06-07
Term: 03
Chapel Subject: Eagles Standard III

Session 3. Understanding change in the process of the eagles maturity.

1. It is time for the young eagle to take his journey.
2. He has "not passed this way before," and is reluctant to start out.
3. The mother eagle begins making things uncomfortable for him in the nest.
4. The nest is so soft, so safe, so comfortable, and he is satisfied to remain there.   
None of this business of "trying out your wings" for him.
5. So the mother eagle "stirs up the nest."
6. She tears up his soft bed, breaks the twigs until the jagged ends stick out.
7. In other words, she begins to make life very miserable for him in the place that had once seemed so nice.
8. Still the young eagle does not leave the torn up nest.
9. So the mother eagle begins to "flutter over her young."
10. In other words, she begins beating him with her wings. the wings under which he once hid from all danger now have   become his greatest enemy, it seems. What a terrible turn of events!
11. To escape those terrible wings, he climbs to the side of the nest, and as she spreads her wings abroad, he hops upon   her back.
12. Where she goes now, he will go for the nest has ceased to be the safe, warm home it once was.
13. See the mother eagle as she soars high into the sky, with the little eagle hanging on for dear life.
14. High up above the clouds she goes, and suddenly, without warning, she dives out from under the little eagle, leaving  him hanging on to nothing. He screams with fear as he tumbles through the air, but instinctively his wings stretch  out and begin trying to catch the air.
15. Finally he learns how to catch the currents of air and soar by himself, needing no longer the mother to catch him from falling.

The following stages outline the eagle processs.

1. The nest is a temporary place of residence.
2. Familiar places will often soon become uncomfortable to live with.
3. Familiar forces will be used to instigate personal change.
4. The journey out of the present place will often not be the way you anticipated.
5. The new place of your habitation is often formidable and unnerving.
6. The new place will draw out of you unknown capabilities.
7. Discovering the new you has both personal and corporate benefits.