wait on or upon To serve the needs of; be in attendance on. To make a formal call on; visit. To follow as a result; depend on. To await: They're waiting on my decision. In this world of high tech, fast moving, I find that in the Old Test. we can see two things that are powerful. The first is that the word SHALL is a done deal, not perhaps, or maybe but a sure thing.  The second thing I see is WAIT, and that is where the real problem comes in today with our Children.  Wait.  It seems like today no more waiting for that Sunday Dinner at moms, we have a microwave and Mickey D's.  Why work on a marraige and for that specail person saving themselve for the other, lets do it today and live together. Why is the family falling victum to breaking up?  We simply have not taught our children the same values, and principles that our forefathers have passed down through the ages.   We GIVE our children things, and more things, because we want them to have the Things we never could afford or have. In this change that has come within my lifetime it is the adults that have brought this "change" to children. Rather then respecting the law's of God, we have shown our children that compromise is ok, after all its their body...right?  We have been purchased with a price and we only have borowed this body, all things are property of God.  I remember the days of Sunday, going to church with the family, then going to eat together and spending the day together. If we needed something, it  could wait until Monday. Well gone are the days and the values and principles have gone just as our families are disapearing.  WAIT, try watching a long line at a store, or in a traffic jam, or on the telephone, we have lost this word along the way and replaced it with WHY wait?   We must go back to the basics as I say, and reclaim what we have lost. Teach our children to learn to DEPEND upon God and his renewing of our Strength in Him. Let us take a look at the Eagle a creation of God that weathers the storms The eagle is a creation of God. It is the most majestic of all birds and is mentioned many times in the bible. In fact, the eagle is mentioned 38 times, much more than the dove or other birds. An eagle is around 90 cm tall and reaches over 2 m between the wings. She builds her nest on the cliff or in a high tree. The nest is so large that a human can sleep in it. It can weigh 700 kg and is also comfortable.   All Baby Eagles Must Learn To Fly High in the mountains, a baby eagle is born. Like all other babies, there are two things that baby eagles, known as eaglets, love to do:eat and sleep. The baby eagle would spend its initial life in the comfort of the nest. Everyday, mama eagle would find food and drop it directly into the open mouths of the hungry eaglet. With a satisfied stomach, the eaglet then goes to sleep and the cycle continues when it becomes hungry again. This goes on for a few weeks, until one day, mama eagle would just hover over the nest. This time, there is no food. After hovering a few rounds, mama eagle would make a dive into the nest and begins to shake it violently. She then takes one of her babies in her mouth and starts rounds, mama eagle would make a dive into the nest and begins to shake it violently. She then takes one of her babies in her mouth and starts soaring into the skies. The baby eaglet begins to tremble, "Mama is mad! Mama is mad!" Suddenly, she drops the baby eaglet who starts to struggle. Just before the eaglet smashes against the rocks, mama eagle would sweep down and pick it up. This goes on for about five to eight times. The eaglet starts to wonder why mama is doing this. Everytime it is being dropped from the sky, the eaglet would struggle by flapping its wings. "Mama can fly. I want to fly like her too!", the eaglet says to itself. What beautiful picture! Mom is teaching her young to fly. At about the fourteenth to fifteenth try, the eaglet begins to fly. The Word of God says in Exodus 19:4 that God bare the children of Israel on eagles' wings. Here we see the eagle symbolise God. The way mama eagle treats her young shows us how God treats His children. Just when it seems like we're going under ... SWISH ... mama eagle, God, comes and picks us up. In the world, they push people upward when they are going up. But God lets us fall down to get us up. Hard times come, but after a couple of times I start to pray a little bit more. I start to read God's word a little bit more. And suddenly I realise that the answers to my prayers are coming. Hard times always come but I find I'm not helpless, no, I see that I can stand on God's word. What has happened? I've learned to spread my wings! I've learned to fly. God carries us supernaturally through all our trials, even if we don't feel it. Yea, who can see the wind. While mom eagle teaches her young to use their own wings, God teaches us to Believe His word and use our Faith.    Eagles Are Made For The High Places Unlike other birds that fly in the lowlands, eagles are made to fly in the high places, out of sight of the naked human eye and out of range of the hunter's rifle. - Relevance God made us to fly in the high places, free from the world's control. A tourist to the Jurong Bird Park once commented that the eagles there looked very clean. In reply, the bird-keeper said: "When eagles are in freedom, they are the cleanest birds. But when they are in captivity, they are the dirtiest."  Eagles Do Not Fly, They Soar Eagles do not fly like other birds, flapping their wings profusely and using their own strength. Instead, eagles SOAR majestically, making use of the wind currents to gain height. What makes the eagle so special is that she sits on the rock and reads the wind and when the time is perfect she takes off and soars upward with her great wings. There is a special up going wind where the eagle rides the wind and circle higher and higher toward the sky, without effort. She just spreads her wings.    Eagles Go Through Specific Periods Of Renewal When they are about 60 years old, eagles go through a period of renewal. An eagle would find a secret place up in the mountains. It would start to claw at its face and tear out the feathers that have been damaged over the years. As a result, it would bleed badly. The eagle would then wait patiently for the rays of the sun to heal it. Through this, the eagle renews its strength by getting rid of the unnecessary things otherwise it would not be able to live till 120 years that it normally does.  Eagles Get Sick, Just Like Humans When an eagle gets sick, it does not go to the doctor. It simply finds a favourite spot in the mountains and await the rays of the sun to heal it. The sun plays a major role in the life of an eagle and as such, is a major source of healing too.  Every Eagle Has To Die When an eagle is about to die, it will fly to its favourite spot in the mountains, wraps its wings round itself, looks at the sun's rays and dies.