The thought of a flying animal makes me smile with the same child-like smiles that filled my face, watching the movie Dumbo at the Capital movie theater on the south side of Chicago, many years ago. I just watched and listened to an excerpt of the movie on You Tube. Two magpies were singing a song, “When I see and elephant fly.” It made my heart smile.
Poor little Dumbo with his massive ears, the object of contempt and ridicule by others. Cursed with being so different. Alone in her misery. Crying out loud, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away and be at rest. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.” You know the rest of the story. The source of Dumbo’s sadness and hopelessness were transformed into unthinkable Wonder. “He gives power to the faint, and to them that have no might He increases strength. Even youths, all Dumbos at heart 🙂 shall faint and be weary, and stumble and fall into despair. But they that wait upon the Lord, who find themselves helpless and without strength; they shall renew their Strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not be faint.”
How about God’s sheep? Yes, they have funny ears. Ears that only hear their own thoughts; thoughts about the meaning of life, the source of happiness in life; the treasures of life, the riches of life. “Labor not to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom. Will you set your eyes and listen with those ears upon what the world says will bring happiness? Riches and treasures in every form, certainly make themselves wings. They fly away as an eagle towards heaven.” God has given His sheep big ears to hear Big things from His own mouth, “My sheep hear My voice and I know them, and they follow me; and I give the Eternal Life. They shall never perish. Nothing that happens and no man,can take them from Me.”
He hides them in the shadow of His Wings. He Flies them away to a place of Peace and Rest. He Makes Himself their Source of Life. He is their Riches. He is their Wealth. He is their Happiness. He is their Joy. “For God has not given you a spirit of despair and fear but a Spirit of Power, and Love, and a Sound Mind”. Silly sheep with big ears, Filled with God Himself; soaring in the sky, “Blessed with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly Places.
Things are looking up, little Dumbo sheep. “As birds flying, so will the Lord defend his children and as He is defending them, He will deliver them and as He is passing over them, He will deliver them.” They will soar with wings like eagles. A flock of flying sheep.
A Good Moment 