Along came a Parabel for our very hard times

[Mira]

This was sent to me this morning, I had nothing to do with the photos or the words
but I'm passing it on for all of us to be spiritually up-lifted by it,
it seems to be photographed and told by a man at the shore



The little duck watches as the bald eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph.



With perfect timing the duck dove and escaped with a mighty splash. He'd pop to the surface each time the eagle flew past him.
After several repeats I worried that the duck would tire and it would be the end of him.


A second eagle joins in the attack. The duck kept diving just in time, so the eagles began to dive into the water after him.



After several minutes of this the eagles got frustrated and began to attack each other. They soon began to dive4 vertically. Level out and attack head-on in the old fashioned game of high speed "chicken".
Sometimes they backed away from each other in the last possible second. Watch the duck catching his breath at the right side of the picture.



A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this high speed head on collision of two Bald Eagles.


One eagle stayed aloft and flew away, and the other lies motionless on the water in a crumpled heap.
The lucky duck survived to live another day.


It's sad to watch an eagle drown. He wiggled, flapped and straggled mostly under water. He finally got his head above water and managed to get airborne.
To my astonishment he flew straight towards me, it was the most wretched and unstable bird flight I have ever seen.


The bedraggled eagle circled me once, then lit atop a nearby fir tree.
He had a six foot wing spread and looked mighty angry.I was concerned I might be his next target, but he was so exhausted he just stared at me.


I was concerned he would topple to the ground as he dried his feathers.
It seemed to me that this bedraggled eagle symbolized America in its current trials


My half hour wait was rewarded with this marvelous sight.
He flew away, looking as good as new.

May America recover as well.