{"id":265,"date":"2021-08-31T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendycarter.website\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-08-31T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:54:46","slug":"bald-eagles-vs-turkey-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagles vs. Turkey Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It was a warm, beautiful blue-sky day.\u00a0 Gary and I were out boating on the Moose River with our son Rob, his wife Jess and granddaughter, Bella to find some bald eagles during our visit north.\u00a0 All of a sudden, we spotted several large white-headed birds with dark brown bodies flying out from the evergreens in the distance. These strong creatures of God looked so majestic swooping here and there with their eight-foot wingspan. (By the way we also saw a black bear on the shoreline, called the Fire Department due to a small forest fire and later took a ride on Rob\u2019s Seadoo!) Bald eagles must have a great reputation since they are the national bird of the U.S. \u00a0Don\u2019t you love the verse in Isaiah 40:31 which promises, \u201cbut those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In comparison a turkey vulture is not really a bird to be admired. One spring day Gary was standing at the end of our driveway and pointing to a large brownish-black bird sitting on the top of a hydro pole across the street.\u00a0 We soon watched it launch forward into a spruce tree behind.\u00a0 It was going after a smaller bird\u2019s eggs or babies.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how it could get through all the branches with its wingspan of six feet.\u00a0 To me this attack wasn\u2019t a pleasant sight.\u00a0 Vultures are known as \u201croadside cleaners\u201d for they like to eat fresh flesh off of dead animals.\u00a0 The dictionary meaning for \u201cvulture\u201d is \u201ca contemptible person who preys on or exploits others.\u201d\u00a0 Not a desirable description.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This month we heard from our Myanmar contact, Thomas.\u00a0 We finally discovered what happened to the money we originally sent him a couple of months ago and now have been able to replace it.\u00a0 He provided a super financial report for us.\u00a0 He has bought his fourth sow (nine can make him self-sustainable) and sold 10 piglets at a good price from his pig farm.\u00a0 Thanks for your prayers.\u00a0 The country is still suffering tremendously with military leaders preying like vultures on their people.\u00a0 Many pastors have died from COVID since vaccines are not readily available.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Hillside Church launch date (September 26) is fast approaching.\u00a0 A fourth mailing of about 600 contacts is going out this week. We are trying to keep strong like the eagles, but it would be very easy to faint since there are so many unknowns facing us.\u00a0 Again, we thank you for your prayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Another \u201cvulture\u201d we are contending with is COVID which doesn\u2019t seem to want to go away.\u00a0 May your children and grandchildren remain healthy as they head off to school.\u00a0 It is also hard to watch so many world-wide crises \u2013 Afghanistan, Haiti, Louisiana.\u00a0 Thankfully, God\u2019s eagle wings are there for His children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warmly in Him,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wendy\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wendy.carter@kainos.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a warm, beautiful blue-sky day.\u00a0 Gary and I were out boating on the Moose River with our son Rob, his wife Jess and granddaughter, Bella to find some bald eagles during our visit north.\u00a0 All of a sudden, we spotted several large white-headed birds with dark brown bodies flying out from the evergreens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}