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Free to Soar

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their

kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like

beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a

string kept them in check。

Instead of blowing away with the wind, they Air Jordan 3 arose against it to achieve great heights.

They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in

tow, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against

the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They

soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of

the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to

fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy Jordan iii of an unsympathetic breeze. It

fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string

against a dead bush. “Free at last” free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown

helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.

How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions,

rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary

counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we

never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment

and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing Women Nike Shox Turbe that some of the restraints that we

may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.