「他們必如鷹展翅上騰。」－以賽亞書40:31
起初，鳥兒是沒有翅膀的；當神將翅膀造好後，就放在他們面前，告訴他們：「來！將這些擔子舉起來放在身上」。
這些鳥兒已經擁有一身豐美的羽毛，和美妙的歌喉了；他們的歌聲美妙悠揚，他們的羽毛在日光下總是閃閃發亮。
所以當神要他們舉起眼前的重擔時，他們猶豫了；只是過了不久，他們還是順服用尖嘴刁起羽翼，安放在肩頭上。
起初這擔子對他們似乎太過沈重，然而他們卻仍願繼續背負，並將羽翼慢慢的收在胸前。
不久，翅膀不僅和他們身體合為一體，他們更發現了利用這些重量的方式，於是他們展開翅膀，在天際裡遨遊。
重擔，竟然成了羽翼！
我們就是缺少翅膀的鳥兒；因而神為我們準備了許多生命裡的責任，和工作的羽翼，為要使我們有一天能展翅飛翔。
我們常常在面對重擔時閃躲逃避，但只要我們甘願挑起重擔，使之與我們的心成為一，他們就能成為翅膀，帶著我們向神飛去。
所有我們在愛裡歡喜背負的重擔，都會成為我們的祝福。
神給我們工作的目的，是為了讓他們成為我們的幫助；拒絕承受肩頭上的壓力，就是拒絕成長的機會。
－密勒
"They shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isa.40:31).There is a fable about the way the birds got their wings at the beginning. They were first made without wings. Then God made the wings and put them down before the wingless birds and said to them, "Come, take up these burdens and bear them."
The birds had lovely plumage and sweet voices; they could sing, and their feathers gleamed in the sunshine, but they could not soar in the air. They hesitated at first when bidden to take up the burdens that lay at their feet, but soon they obeyed, and taking up the wings in their beaks, laid them on their shoulders to carry them.
For a little while the load seemed heavy and hard to bear, but presently, as they went on carrying the burdens, folding them over their hearts, the wings grew fast to their little bodies, and soon they discovered how to use them, and were lifted by them up into the air--the weights became wings.
It is a parable. We are the wingless birds, and our duties and tasks are the pinions God has made to lift us up and carry us heavenward. We look at our burdens and heavy loads, and shrink from them; but as we lift them and bind them about our hearts, they become wings, and on them we rise and soar toward God.
There is no burden which, if we lift it cheerfully and bear it with love in our hearts, will not become a blessing to us. God means our tasks to be our helpers; to refuse to bend our shoulders to receive a load, is to decline a new opportunity for growth. --J. R. Miller
