Flying High

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Once upon a time, there was a king who had gone to visit neighboring kingdoms. During his visit, he was gifted with a pair of baby Macaw Parrots. They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. So, upon returning to his kingdom, he called for a bird trainer and asked him to train macaw parrots.

The king also arranged a place in the palace garden for the parrots. He often looked at them from his palace window.

As time passed, one day the trainer came to the palace and informed the king that though one of the parrots was flying majestically high in the sky, the other one was not moving from its branch since the day it had arrived.

Upon hearing this, the king summoned trainer and healers from the nearby kingdoms. They all tried their best, but couldn’t make the parrot fly! He even asked his courtiers to try to find a way to make the parrot fly but they all failed. 

The parrot was not moving from his branch at all. Finally, after trying everything, the king thought that maybe he needs someone who may be more familiar with the natural habitat. He asked his courtier to get a farmer from the countryside and take him to the parrot to see if he can understand the problem with the parrot.

The next morning, the king was thrilled to see the parrot flying high above the palace gardens.

He asked his servant to call that farmer to meet him. The servant quickly went and located the farmer, who came and stood before the king.

The king asked him, “How did you make the parrot fly?”

With his hands folded with respect, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy, your majesty. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”

Lesson :

Human life has unique potential to realize God, but fail to gather courage towards it and simply remain clinging to the things that are familiar to us. Sometimes difficulties could be the way to make us fly high, away from the branch that we are clinging to.

 

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