Deuteronomy 32:10b-11 He guarded him . . . like an eagle that stirs up its nestand hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch themand carries them aloft. (The Lord, like the eagle with its young, stirs up our lives so that He forces us to spread our wings and learn to fly, so that we stretch into new and next phases of maturity. Like the eagle, He hovers over us, carefully protecting us so that we don't fall from the safe nest of His enclosure for us. When we are ready to learn to fly, like the parent eagle that watches from the lower branches under the nest when the eaglet begins to practice branching, fluttering down to a lower branch until it gains enough expertise for actual flight, when we begin to take steps of faith in Him, the Lord spreads His arms to catch us. Just as the eagle carries its young in its claws or beak
so carefully that it's as if the young are being carried on the eagle's wing,
the Lord carries us gently and lovingly, not in the piercing grip of a claw or beak, but in all the provision of His safety net, allowing us to rest in Him, allowing us to mature and grow, watching over us so we don't fall and fail. His promise to us today is that He effortlessly carries us through the turmoil and storm, above the fray, as if we were being carried on the wings of a soaring eagle.)
