Great Changes Have Come to SOAR WITH EAGLES!

Dear Friends,

Soar With Eagles has now grown from a blog to a website thanks to each of you faithful readers!

Unfortunately, growth usually requires a little change.  In order to receive all future Soar With Eagles articles via email, you will need to subscribe to the new website.  As before, your subscription is free and your email address will never be divulged to anyone else.

Dorothy had to click her heels three times, but you only have to do it once!  Just click your cursor on:   Subscribe to Soar With Eagles by Email

But before you do, let me sincerely thank each of you for reading the articles, commenting, subscribing, telling others about SWE, and encouraging me.  You are the best!  And that’s what keeps me writing.

Ever mindful of the One who provides all, I praise our wonderful God for His guidance as I write for His glory, not mine.

Cynthia Howerter

Soar With Eagles

http://cynthiahowerter.com

 

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Wisdom Wednesday

“When Prosperity was well mounted, she let go the Bridle, and soon came tumbling out of the Saddle.”  – Benjamin Franklin (is he back?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Lessons That Preserve

Today is President’s Day, the day when we officially honor our American Presidents.

If you’re like me, you learned about our first President, George Washington, in elementary school.  Are you aware that many American schools no longer teach students about President Washington or any President who came before Abraham Lincoln?

Ask a student who George Washington was and you may be shocked to learn that the youngster doesn’t have a clue.  Ask them about the American Revolutionary War and be prepared for a blank stare.

Today’s American schools are very different from the ones you and I attended.  Please note:  I am not saying change is bad.  I am saying that the deliberate deletion of America’s early history and our heritage should be cause for great alarm.

You see, when we forget the reason why our country began, when we lose sight of the visions of our Founding Fathers, when we forget that our own Declaration of Independence claims ”the protection of divine Providence,” then we are on the slide downward.  Think of the history of the Roman Empire.  You were taught about that, weren’t you?

I encourage – make that, I challenge – you to read up on George Washington and the Founding Fathers.

Who were the Founding Fathers, you ask?  Oh, dear.  Not a good sign.

How can you know what kind of country ours was meant to be if you’ve lost sight of the men who founded it and their reasons for doing so?

Tell me.  What personal risks and sacrifices did each one of these men make to win freedom from England and begin our country?  Oh, no!  It’s worse than I thought!  Please.  Somebody bring me oxygen.

Think about this:  what personal benefits have you enjoyed since your first breath thanks to George Washington, the Founding Fathers and their families? 

You see, when you forget the past, it’s unbelievably easy to forget what our country is supposed to be.

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I further challenge you to read about our early Presidents, our Founding Fathers and the rule of England over the 13 American colonies.  Acclaimed historian David Barton and Wall Builders are an excellent, accurate source of information.  Their easy-to-read books can be purchased at www.wallbuilders.com/ and at Amazon.

A word of caution:  Be discerning.  While there are numerous history books available, many contemporary historians are intent on revising facts concerning Washington and our Founding Fathers.  Many of these authors, in an attempt to remove God from our country and our American history, claim that Washington and his contemporaries were not Christians.

“But he who listens to Me will live free from danger, and he will rest easy from the fear of what is sinful.”  Proverbs 1:33.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Book Giveaway Winner!

Thank you, everyone, for entering the SOAR WITH EAGLES book giveaway contest!  The prize is a copy of Sarah Young’s best-selling Jesus Calling:  A 365 Day Journaling Devotional. 

The winner is:  Marie! 

Marie, your new book will be delivered to you within the next week.  Enjoy!

TO GOD BE THE GLORY 

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Best-Selling Book Giveaway

Who wouldn’t want a free copy of the best-selling book Jesus Calling:  A 365 Day Journaling Devotional, by Sarah Young?

To enter the book giveaway, subscribe (for free) to SOAR WITH EAGLES before  10:00 a.m. (eastern time) tomorrow, Friday, February 17th.

For your entry to win, all you have to do is scroll down the right column of this post (underneath “Meet Cynthia”) and click on the Subscribe button.  You’ll be asked for your email address (which will not be given out to anyone else).  Then you’ll receive an email asking you to click on the URL to confirm your subscription.  This free subscription notifies you by email each time an article is published on SOAR WITH EAGLES.

The winner will be announced on this site and by email on Friday, February 17th.

Jesus Calling:  A 365 Day Journaling Devotional is written by missionary Sarah Young from Jesus’ point of view.  It is filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year.  A Best-selling book in 2011 and 2012.

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Wordless Wednesday

Dunnotar Castle, Stonehaven, Scotland

Photo by Geoffrey Noell

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Celebrate Love – God’s Gift to Us

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Choosing Joy

Are you in a dark place?  A place without lightbulbs?  Even if you had one, it wouldn’t work in this dungeon.

Are you grieving something?  A diagnosis of cancer?  The end of your marriage?  The poor choices of your child?  The death of a loved one?  The loss of your job?

These are the things that can stomp the life, the joy right out of a person.  Yes, even you.  Even me.

Are you thinking that Hell is actually a place here on earth, not below it?  I tell you, friend, that I am right there with you.

But I’m not going to stay there.  And do you know why?

Because God is extending His hand to me.  He is reaching out to me.  He wants me to grab hold and allow Him to pull me out of this life-sucking situation.

God isn’t called “The Great Comforter,” “The Great Healer” for nothing.  No, God is ever-present – even in the worst of times.  When misery raises its ugly head, we have a God who never left our side.

Our worst situations are opportunities to become close to God.  You see, God wants us to have an intimate relationship with Him.  We can’t have that when other things have our primary focus.

We were placed on this earth to serve God.  Not ourselves.

It’s a choice we make.  Simply put, you either choose God or you don’t.  What is the alternative to not choosing God?  It’s choosing Satan.  Makes the choice obvious now, doesn’t it?

So, I’m going to take God’s outreached Hand.  I’m going to read His Words.  I’m going to believe His Promises.

Because if I don’t, as sure as the seasons change, I’m going to stay in this dark place.  This place that weighs heavily on a person’s chest.

No, I don’t want a lifetime of that.  Or even a day of that.

I’m choosing joy.  What about you?

“God is our refuge and our strength.  A very present help in trouble.”  Psalm 46:1. 

Sign up for a free email subscription to SOAR WITH EAGLES at the top right of this post (underneath “Meet Cynthia”) by noon Eastern time on February 17th for your entry to win a copy of the best-selling book Jesus Calling:  A 365 Day Journaling Devotional by Sarah Young.  Winner will be announced on this site and by email on Friday, February 17th.

Jesus Calling: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional is written by missionary Sarah Young from Jesus’ point of view.  It is filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year.  A Best-Selling book in 2011 and 2012. 

TO GOD BE THE GLORY 

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: Wordless Wednesday

It’s good to be home.  Mount Nittany, Centre County, Pennsylvania.  Home of The Pennsylvania State University.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012

SOAR WITH EAGLES: The Gift

I’ve learned many lessons the past several days.

The most important one is understanding what a gift it is to family members to know that their loved one accepted Christ as their Savior before their death.

The comfort this knowledge brings surpasses the kindest gestures of sympathy.

As many of you know, my only nephew passed away last week.  Brandon McDonough was thirty years old, the only child of my sister Pamela and brother-in-law, Terrence.

The sudden death of a family member is always shocking.  The death of one’s child – and an only child – is beyond heartbreaking.

In the midst of grief, our family knew with certainty where Brandon was.  Yes, his body was laid out before us.  But most importantly, his soul was already safe and content in Heaven.

While we cried, we also rejoiced.  Knowing that Brandon was at The Party.  In the presence of his Creator.  Surrounded by grandparents and relatives and friends who had passed before him.

After the last comforter left, my sister spoke of never being able to see her son married, of never being able to have grandchildren.

But what she said next, realized the truth of Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”

Pamela expressed her desire that God would bring young people into her life in the future.  People that she might be able to help in some way.  She spoke of her hope to make a difference in the life of someone who is struggling or in need of encouragement.

It is just as I have long thought.  That in the midst of things that are bad, there is also good.

“God is our refuge and strength,  a very present help in trouble.  Therefore,  we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”  Psalm 46: 1-3.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Cynthia Howerter © 2012