Who are you?

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbor.
“He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.”

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

Author unknown

EW:
Who are you? Who have those around you said you are? What limitations have you put on yourself or let others put on you? Who says that you can't do or be all that God created you to be? In school, my son was taught to change the phrase "I can't..." to "I can try..." The lesson made a difference in our lives too. You may have also told yourself or been told that "you can't." You may have even tried many things and not succeeded...yet. You need to realize that like Elbert Hubbard said: "There is no failure except in no longer trying." It is never to late to try - look within yourself, break away from those limitation and exploit your potentials. You can try...today is great time to try and before long you will be flying in the sky.

W.O.M.A.N.

Be a W.O.M.A.N

Woman

On a

Mission to

Achieve

New heights

Your mission is your calling. To achieve anything, you need to know what that mission is and then start (or continue) doing all you need to to "walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God's service" (Eph 4:1 - Amp)

"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." ~ W. Clement Stone

Like Wilma J. Brown said at another Women's Empowerment Conference, we must be fired up and get up to do what we need to. It may not be an emergency yet...but there is an urgency. So get up and get going...

Be a Woman On a Mission to Achieve New heights...

...the world awaits your manifestation.

The eagle that lived and died as a chicken

A baby eagle became orphaned when something happened to his parents. He glided down to the ground from his nest but was not yet able to fly. A man picked him up. The man took him to a farmer & said, “This is a special kind of barnyard chicken that will grow up big.”

The farmer said, “Don’t look like no barnyard chicken to me.” “Oh yes, it is. You will be glad to own it.” The farmer took the baby eagle and placed it with his chickens. The baby eagle learned to imitate the chickens. He could scratch the ground for grubs and worms too. He grew up thinking he was a chicken.

Then one day an eagle flew over the barnyard. The eagle looked up and wondered, “What kind of animal is that? How graceful, powerful, and free it is.” Then he asked another chicken, “What is that?” The chicken replied, “Oh, that is an eagle. But don’t worry yourself about that. You will never be able to fly like that.”

And the eagle went back to scratching the ground.

He continued to behave like the chicken he thought he was.

Finally he died,

never knowing the grand life that could have been his.

Author unknown

EW:

From the first time I read this story and I could not help but wonder which potentials and/or abilities I have that I have not discovered. Join me in this journey to get empowered to look up and step up and be all God has ordained me to be. 

Be Empowered

Empower means:

1. give authority to somebody: to give somebody power or authority*

2. make more confident or assertive: to give somebody a greater sense of confidence or self-esteem* We all need to realize that we have the "authority" and ability to achieve success. God has given us every thing we need to live a successful life. God knows the plans He has for your life, do you have any plan for your life? At our Women Empowerment Conference, we learned that we must all PLAN Put God first Let go of your limitations Assess you capabilities Never let go of your aspirations As we start the 2nd half of the year, how much have you accomplished per your plan? Do you have one? Or have you just let things happen to you? Are you "stuck" at the bottom of a mountain with a plan but no idea on how to proceeed? Do you need help up? With God's help and inspiration, we'll share "Empowerment" tips on this blog. They may be things you already know and possibly things you have not done...but need to take note of and DO to get to the next level in your life. No-one can really help you beyond your first step...so arise, take my hand and...  ...let's go...

Source:
* http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=empowerment

Just BE

Let me tell you a bit about how - or shall I say why - this blog got started...

Last month, God provided me with the rare opportunity of attending two Women Empowerment Conferences within an 8-day period. Knowing that the number "8" stands for a "New Beginning"* in the spiritual realm, I had to take notice of it. My husband, in his usual manner, had mentioned that I need to do something with all that's happening around me. So I'm using my God-given talents to do just that

...one phrase or precept or paragraph or posting at a time...