Experiencing Christ Within Chatper Seven:
This chapter starts out with a Native American Fable about at young brave who swiped a golden eagle egg from it’s nest and placed it with a bunch of prairie chicken eggs. The eagle egg hatched and grew up thinking he was a praire chicken. He scratched and clucked like all the other chickens and never flew more than a few feet off the ground.

One day the eagle saw a great shadow pass over him. He looked up to see a huge bird soaring with wings widespread. He marveled at the beauty of the bird. His praire chicken brother told him it was an eagle. “A golden eagle. He’s king of the air. No bird can compare with him. But don’t give it a second thought; you could never be like him.”

And the eagle didn’t give it a second thought, but went back to clucking and scratching like all the other praire chickens…

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