Renew your wings and fly like an eagle

Take it on Tuesday!

I belong to a prayer group my dear friend Michele invited me to a few weeks back. Today our leader explained the eagle’s molting process where old feathers are replaced with new feathers. This renewal process allows the eagle to continue to soar. She went on to described how we need to get rid of old things that hold us back from the new things God has for us. I thought about how old habits, past disappointment, and failure hold us back don’t they? We carry around old habits, hurts, disappointments, and failures that weigh us down preventing us from soaring to greater heights.

Our minds have been trained to constantly look back at the past. I do believe the past has value because it gives us a strong identity about our culture/history, it teaches us valuable lessons, provides perspective by showing the predictability of life and gives us a starting point to navigate solutions for contemporary problems.

But, bringing forward the past also brings us two unwelcomed visitors -(1) old habits and (2) an unmanaged fixation over past failures, hurts, and disappointments. We often get stuck in thinking and doing things the way we always did and we struggle to move past failures and disappointment. Both of these block new ideas and prevents us from renewing our wings and flying! When we borrow from past disappointments failures and habits, we are stealing from future possibilities.

If you have something holding you back have a burial ceremony. Bury it in the dirt, throw it down the drain, cast it into the sea, say goodbye to the past disappointment, failure, or negative habit. Start renewing your mind today, the way an eagle renews its wings. Don’t rush, it will be a gradual ongoing process you will need to work on every day. But, just stick with it and you will take flight and soar!