"From Buzzard Bait
to Eagle's Wings!" How do you come up with
a title like that? You live it and it becomes a part of your life.
No, not literally (although it seems like it)! But things do happen in
your life and you feel like “Buzzard Bait.”
How many times have you driven down the highway and there on
the side of the road is the carcass of an animal.
You
swerve to miss it. Face facts! You don't want the gunk, smell and mess on
your tires or car. But as you are still looking at the carcass...who knows
why you do that but you do…you see something eating the carcass.
Something pick, pick, picking away at this
mess. Yuck!
A pitiful sight, but gross
accurately describes the scene.
Several years ago I came down with a disease called Guillain Barre
Syndrome.
I went from walking around and
taking care of my family to total
paralysis in less than two weeks.
I was
on a respirator for three months, in the hospital for six months and I died several
times, so they tell me (one time that I remember).
I couldn’t do
anything for myself….totally degrading!
All I could do was lay there.
I
was a prisoner in my own body.
I was
alert in my mind, but my body held me prisoner.
My body was paralyzed. I had tubes in every opening on my body and then they
made a few extra places for IVs.
People
would come to visit me and when they saw me, they would turn around and leave.
I could see them turn green as they made a quick exit.
Others came to see what happened to this once
healthy, active person.
I wanted to know
the answer to that myself.
I was scared, weak and deathly ill.
I
prayed for the Lord to let me die and escape the horrible pain I was
experiencing.
But then I would think of
my husband and four children. What would happen to them?
My children were afraid that I was already
dead.
As much as I loved them, I did not
want them to see me in my condition.
I
couldn’t stand it if they turned green and made a quick exit. So I had refused
to let them come visit.
But my doctor had other plans.
He
told me the children were coming.
I
said, “No!”
He said, “They will be here
this afternoon!” And that was that.
I
did enjoy seeing the children but the sweet baby look on their faces had
changed. They seemed so much older. And my baby girl was afraid of me.
I was crushed!
Heartbroken!
Devastated!
Basically, I was “Buzzard
Bait!”
So, as I lay in my hospital bed, trying not to feel sorry for myself, I
would pray for other people in ICU.
In
that time the Lord placed in my mind one word from a verse of Scripture….
Eagle!
I didn’t know the rest of the verse, but it was all I needed at that
moment.
I would think of myself like an
Eagle soaring high above my situation.
As setbacks occurred, I would think of that Eagle and soar on wings as an Eagle! By God's grace, I would rise above the problems and no longer think of myself as "Buzzard Bait!"
By now you’re beginning to see where the title, “From Buzzard Bait to
Eagle’s Wings” originated.
Truly in that
six month hospital stay and the years of therapy after, I felt like “Buzzard
Bait.”
But God delivered me from death
and gave me that verse so I could soar like an Eagle!
As time went by, I learned the rest of the
verse:
But they that wait upon
the Lord
shall renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they
shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah
40:31 (KJV)
So, when you’re feeling like “Buzzard Bait,” don’t give in to the pity party
that Satan tries to drag you into.
Remember you are special to God, especially when you are struggling with
life, health, finances, family problems, relationships and most importantly, in
you spiritual life.
Don’t lay there on the side of the road of life allowing that buzzard to
pick, pick, pick away at what you have left in your life. Don’t give into Satan’s
lies!!!!
Mount up with “Eagle’s Wings!” Soar
above your situation.
As you do, your
strength is renewed and you begin to live a victorious life.
You are not “Buzzard Bait!”
You are God’s special creation!
Soar like an “Eagle!”
