As you may or may not have noticed Christmas is coming rather quickly; in 33 days at the time of writing this post. And there are many preparations to be made in readiness for the big day.
This weekend is one of the milestones on the way to Christmas as it is traditionally known as Stir up Sunday. This is the day when we should all be gathering and stirring up the required ingredients to make our Christmas puddings.
This is still celebrated in churches, though not as much as it once was, as a day to think about being stirred up by God. In the book of Deuteronomy Moses uses the illustration of an eagle stirring up its nest in order to encourage the young eagle chicks (there must be a proper name for a young eagle, any answers appreciated) to leave the nest and learn to fly.
During this process the mother eagle rips up the comfortable matting of the nest to expose the thorns underneath and may even give the young eagles (missing a proper name again) out of the nest. Whilst this seems maybe a little cruel, she knows that it is essential that her young learn how to fly, and this is the only way.
In our lives we may often feel like the comfortable world we know gets stirred up and the thorns exposed, and sometimes feel like we are being nudged out of our comfort zones.
But our God knows that we all need to learn to fly and very often we only grow in this way through the most uncomfortable and painful feeling times.
The greatest part of the eagle analogy is that after the mother eagle has nudged the chicks out of the nest, she swoops down to catch them again and again until they learn to fly for themselves.
What ever you are facing today, even if it feels like you are falling from your nest, God will always swoop down and carry you on his wings that will always keep us safe.
Have a great day
God bless
Chris
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