Eagle Guide

Mentor, Eagle, and Isaiah guide me to fly high.

My special mentor said not long ago
Have you read Isaiah 40:31?

     “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;

     they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

     they shall run, and not be weary;

     and they shall walk, and not faint.”

I knew I was waiting
Isaiah continued to guide
As eagles started appearing
From a friend, in a book, in the sky

Then on the back of a plug, to my surprise…

While trouble-shooting a failed TV
The steps were simple and direct:

     Unplug
     Wait
     Plug
     Wait
     Reset
     Wait
     Call for assistance

     You may need on-site help

Patience my dear, did you follow the steps?
I know you are angry, but the directions are very clear.
Did you wait the set amount of time?
Yes I know it’s just broke, you’ve said that five times
It should not be this stressful, it’s just a TV
And you skipped step two and step three
Please do something else while I repeat

     Unplug
     Wait...

It was then an eagle appeared
A logo on the back of the plug
In the midst of this nonsense I found a smile
This is not about fixing a TV
Life parallels

     ...Plug, wait, reset, wait, call for…

Assistance: Did you do all the steps before on-site help?

     Wait

                   You may need a replacement part.

An eagle goes to the highest mount
To pull out old feathers, so new ones can grow.
I finally left to pull out the old, painfully one by one
But the day I arrived, yet another confirmation I’d fly high
As Isaiah 40:31, framed with an eagle, caught my eye.

Little Mouse
September 30, 2007
 

Reviews

[Jonathan Bryant Dean]

Are you a preacher? If not you should find one and sell that little gem.

It is a good little idiom.

JBD

[M Lamont]

Ooh...great job here! Love the "eagle logo" connection. Excellent!

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

What a delightful write with such depth of comparison from something so seemingly mundane to the sublime. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful lesson expressed here. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
Light,
Siddartha