Flying

Sunday afternoons we try to watch something that we all enjoy. This Sunday we stumbled upon the series on National Geographic, “Dr. Oakley”.  She’s a veterinarian in the Yukon. At the end of one episode Dr. Oakley has rehabilitated two eaglets who each had a complex fracture in a wing. They were born normal, but some trauma had taken their very important ability to fly.  Weeks of rehab and healing and they were ready to be released. 

“We started with two young birds that were quite broken and now they’re being released. Now they can fly.”   

Seeing those eaglets fly off after weeks of healing, reminded me of Libby.   She was once whole and has spent over half of her life with a body that has become progressively more dysfunctional.  

Sadly our medical interventions have not healed Libby, but they have helped to keep her happy and comfortable.  Since earthly healing has not come, she regain her wings through other worldly powers.  

One day, she too will be healed and fly away.  She will fly again because our God will remind her how.  

https://music.apple.com/us/album/ill-fly-away/269440847?i=269441201