Eagles Courtship
The eagle is such a wonderful creature that has a lot to offer to life. When the male eagle reaches the age of three, it begins the process of wooing the female eagle but there are some key requirements it must fulfill to get the nod or total approval of the female eagle in the proposed relationship.
The two undergo a process called tagging that usually lasts for a couple of days in which the male eagle proves whether he is truly qualified to foot the bill of the female eagle. Amongst the fundamental qualities that the female eagle looks for in the male eagle is his trustworthiness and his ability to cater for her and her eaglets when they are born.
You may wonder, how does the female eagle confirm this and what are the pointers she looks for in the male eagle? Lets check this out - during the process of tagging, the female eagle conducts some exercises which tests these abilities in the male eagle. They are as follows:
The female eagle takes a stick in a three dimensional figure-eight pattern in the air to heights reaching as high as 10,000 feet above the ground level and then drops it. She requires the male eagle to catch it before it reaches the ground and return it to her.
The female eagle repeats this process everytime by reducing the height with which it flies above ground level and using a larger stick but increases the speed at which it drops the stick. She expects the male eagle to pick the stick up each time without allowing it to fall to the ground and returning it to her.
She continues this until the height of flight above the ground is just about 500 feet. At this point, the male eagle goes through the greatest test of the whole exercise. If he fails here, he is given the boot out of the relationship but if he succeeds, he wins the heart of the female eagle completely.
The question is; why this stress? or whole exercise? Is this all because the male eagle desires to have a wife in the female eagle? The female eagle takes the male eagle through all these because she wants to be sure that the male eagle has the following abilities/qualities:
1) He is dependable friend
2) To find out whether he is very fit to be her husband
3) She wants to be sure that when the baby eaglets are born, he would be able to catch them when she is teaching the eaglets how to fly. This is because the process of teaching the eaglets how to fly requires her to drop them and see whether they can fly, and should they have any struggles in flying, the male eagle is expected to catch them before they crash land.
4) He is patient enough to be the head and overseas the affairs of their proposed family
..but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulations produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, HOPE. Now HOPE does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us..Romans 5:3-5
From the above phase of the eagle’s life, we can infer some key points as nuggets to soar high in this year. These are:
Taking a cue from the statement credited to Ben Jonson; True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
The female eagle has a worthy and dependable friend in the male eagle with great worth and value to her life. We all need such in our lives to have the right balance as we progress with our daily life endeavours. We have a duty to choose the right ones because they can either make or break us - the choice of friends or relationships we keep this year is absolutely ours.
We have a duty to choose rightly by paying attention to some key qualities in them.
Focus - This is a very vital requirement to soar very high as we progress this year. The female eagle never wavered on her resolve to know the true quality of her potential mate, friend and husband. She did not settle for less neither did she compromise on the standard required of him.
Similarly, the male eagle on his part was resolved to win the heart of the female eagle irrespective of the cost. We must have set goals and targets with a strong focus at achieving them irrespective of the challenges that come our way in form of family issues, associates, economic changes as well as unexplainable life situations. When we have a goal with a focus, it helps our judgment on what we desire to get and how to get it.
Trust - due to the tagging process and all that is involved the female eagle is rest assured that no matter what happens, the male eagle will watch her back as well as keep the eaglets safe.
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will need trusted partnerships and networking to carry out some laudable innovative ideas and hatch great concepts/plans.
This really makes life easy when we know deep down that we have people who we believe in and vice versa, as well as willing to trust us with a friendship.
The eagle is such a wonderful creature that has a lot to offer to life. When the male eagle reaches the age of three, it begins the process of wooing the female eagle but there are some key requirements it must fulfill to get the nod or total approval of the female eagle in the proposed relationship.
The two undergo a process called tagging that usually lasts for a couple of days in which the male eagle proves whether he is truly qualified to foot the bill of the female eagle. Amongst the fundamental qualities that the female eagle looks for in the male eagle is his trustworthiness and his ability to cater for her and her eaglets when they are born.
You may wonder, how does the female eagle confirm this and what are the pointers she looks for in the male eagle? Lets check this out - during the process of tagging, the female eagle conducts some exercises which tests these abilities in the male eagle. They are as follows:
The female eagle takes a stick in a three dimensional figure-eight pattern in the air to heights reaching as high as 10,000 feet above the ground level and then drops it. She requires the male eagle to catch it before it reaches the ground and return it to her.
The female eagle repeats this process everytime by reducing the height with which it flies above ground level and using a larger stick but increases the speed at which it drops the stick. She expects the male eagle to pick the stick up each time without allowing it to fall to the ground and returning it to her.
She continues this until the height of flight above the ground is just about 500 feet. At this point, the male eagle goes through the greatest test of the whole exercise. If he fails here, he is given the boot out of the relationship but if he succeeds, he wins the heart of the female eagle completely.
The question is; why this stress? or whole exercise? Is this all because the male eagle desires to have a wife in the female eagle? The female eagle takes the male eagle through all these because she wants to be sure that the male eagle has the following abilities/qualities:
1) He is dependable friend
2) To find out whether he is very fit to be her husband
3) She wants to be sure that when the baby eaglets are born, he would be able to catch them when she is teaching the eaglets how to fly. This is because the process of teaching the eaglets how to fly requires her to drop them and see whether they can fly, and should they have any struggles in flying, the male eagle is expected to catch them before they crash land.
4) He is patient enough to be the head and overseas the affairs of their proposed family
..but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulations produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, HOPE. Now HOPE does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us..Romans 5:3-5
From the above phase of the eagle’s life, we can infer some key points as nuggets to soar high in this year. These are:
Taking a cue from the statement credited to Ben Jonson; True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
The female eagle has a worthy and dependable friend in the male eagle with great worth and value to her life. We all need such in our lives to have the right balance as we progress with our daily life endeavours. We have a duty to choose the right ones because they can either make or break us - the choice of friends or relationships we keep this year is absolutely ours.
We have a duty to choose rightly by paying attention to some key qualities in them.
Focus - This is a very vital requirement to soar very high as we progress this year. The female eagle never wavered on her resolve to know the true quality of her potential mate, friend and husband. She did not settle for less neither did she compromise on the standard required of him.
Similarly, the male eagle on his part was resolved to win the heart of the female eagle irrespective of the cost. We must have set goals and targets with a strong focus at achieving them irrespective of the challenges that come our way in form of family issues, associates, economic changes as well as unexplainable life situations. When we have a goal with a focus, it helps our judgment on what we desire to get and how to get it.
Trust - due to the tagging process and all that is involved the female eagle is rest assured that no matter what happens, the male eagle will watch her back as well as keep the eaglets safe.
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will need trusted partnerships and networking to carry out some laudable innovative ideas and hatch great concepts/plans.
This really makes life easy when we know deep down that we have people who we believe in and vice versa, as well as willing to trust us with a friendship.
Eagles and its potential
After the rehearsals of finding a right partner and consummation of their love in marriage by the eagles, what follows is to find a very suitable place and commence the process of building their home.
The eagles (male and female) take their time to find a proper location to build their home and invest a lot of time and energy into this in order to ensure a secured brooding haven for their eaglets. Unlike other birds that build nests that can be easily destroyed, the eagles avoid this hazard to their homes by siting it in high inaccessible locations and use the best of wood and craftsmanship to build a nest that weighs about 1000 - 2000 kilogrammes.
Furthermore, in preparation for the laying of her eggs and birth of the eaglets, the mother eagle shows her caring nature by pulling some downy fur from her chest to give a soothing effect to her eaglets . She uses these to make a very warm and soft bedding over a shallow brooding area (usually about 0.5M) on top of the nest for the eaglets.
“The black pot maybe a dirty and unappealing container, it is used to churn out different delicacies in a restaurant”
“Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would Increase ABUNDANTLY” - Job8:7
To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than ALL the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes GREATER than ALL herbs, and shoots out LARGE BRANCHES, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade..Mark 4:30-32
Never judge or measure a man by his physical appearance or little shortcoming in his/her life - you don’t have the slightest idea of the INNATE ABILITIES OF THAT BEING. This assertion is the case with the eaglets. When the eaglet is born, it looks like the ugliest creature you can ever behold but that is the worst physical state it can ever be. The eaglets are hatched looking like very unattractive and have very great appetite for food. They have raccoon looking eyes and funny body structure. Even though these outward characteristics temporary put them to the rear, they will eventually grow into beautiful birds, soaring high in the skies (after learning the art from the mothers) and possess excellent innate abilities which make them stand out among birds in the world.
Morale:
1. The outward appearance is deceptive. It is not the kind of clothes, you wear or the car you drive or the way you walk that determines what you are or what you will be. It is what you have within you, in your heart (your being), your mindset (your soul) that determines in its entirety the height you will attain in life. The measure of a man is a function of the makeup of the man.
Take time out today to add value to yourself. After all, it is your life.
2. Preparation is very key to sustaining any major project that we venture into in life. When the preparation is lacking project expiration is inevitable.
3. If something is to be built to last, a lot of factors must be taken into consideration and time must be invested wisely. The right values for growth, development and sustainability must be imbibed to ensure that the project last.
After the rehearsals of finding a right partner and consummation of their love in marriage by the eagles, what follows is to find a very suitable place and commence the process of building their home.
The eagles (male and female) take their time to find a proper location to build their home and invest a lot of time and energy into this in order to ensure a secured brooding haven for their eaglets. Unlike other birds that build nests that can be easily destroyed, the eagles avoid this hazard to their homes by siting it in high inaccessible locations and use the best of wood and craftsmanship to build a nest that weighs about 1000 - 2000 kilogrammes.
Furthermore, in preparation for the laying of her eggs and birth of the eaglets, the mother eagle shows her caring nature by pulling some downy fur from her chest to give a soothing effect to her eaglets . She uses these to make a very warm and soft bedding over a shallow brooding area (usually about 0.5M) on top of the nest for the eaglets.
“The black pot maybe a dirty and unappealing container, it is used to churn out different delicacies in a restaurant”
“Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would Increase ABUNDANTLY” - Job8:7
To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than ALL the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes GREATER than ALL herbs, and shoots out LARGE BRANCHES, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade..Mark 4:30-32
Never judge or measure a man by his physical appearance or little shortcoming in his/her life - you don’t have the slightest idea of the INNATE ABILITIES OF THAT BEING. This assertion is the case with the eaglets. When the eaglet is born, it looks like the ugliest creature you can ever behold but that is the worst physical state it can ever be. The eaglets are hatched looking like very unattractive and have very great appetite for food. They have raccoon looking eyes and funny body structure. Even though these outward characteristics temporary put them to the rear, they will eventually grow into beautiful birds, soaring high in the skies (after learning the art from the mothers) and possess excellent innate abilities which make them stand out among birds in the world.
Morale:
1. The outward appearance is deceptive. It is not the kind of clothes, you wear or the car you drive or the way you walk that determines what you are or what you will be. It is what you have within you, in your heart (your being), your mindset (your soul) that determines in its entirety the height you will attain in life. The measure of a man is a function of the makeup of the man.
Take time out today to add value to yourself. After all, it is your life.
2. Preparation is very key to sustaining any major project that we venture into in life. When the preparation is lacking project expiration is inevitable.
3. If something is to be built to last, a lot of factors must be taken into consideration and time must be invested wisely. The right values for growth, development and sustainability must be imbibed to ensure that the project last.
