By Xichen
I have heard such a story: The course of eagles’ growth is cruel. In order for the eaglets to hover in the sky, the mother eagle will push them over the cliff when their feathers are full. While they are falling, eaglets exhaust all their strength to flutter to survive. Through struggling painfully, finally they can fly. However, for the sake of letting them soar in the high sky, the mother eagle will break their wings and push them over the cliff again. This time, they will suffer more pain than before. Yet no matter how painful they are, they still have to flutter their broken wings. Because only by doing this can they hover in the high sky; otherwise, they will never be able to fly in the blue sky.
Why do eaglets need to undergo such harsh training in the course of growing up? Because only through such cruel training can they soar in the high air. Similarly, we will meet many difficulties in our lives as eaglets do, and these difficulties are exactly what God meticulously arranges for training us to grow up.
