I've been reading the Five Doves letters for about a month now.  I've also been keeping an eye on Shelby Corbitt's website www.2007rapture.com.  I was thinking  this morning about the various people who feel that the rapture will happen very soon, possibly even this summer.  I asked the Lord if there was anything to all this.   I suddenly thought to myself 'I should ask to see an eagle today if there is something to this.'  I felt afraid to do so.  I trust the Lord implicitly, but I don't always trust myself.  I was also afraid of being disappointed if I didn't see an eagle.  Nonetheless, I had in my mind that if I did see an eagle today, it would be confirmation for me.

My husband and I are avid cyclists.  Upon learning that I had difficulty sleeping last night, my husband abruptly decided to take a vacation day from work to make sure I got some rest today.  In the early afternoon, he asked if I wanted to go for a bike ride.  We decided to ride to Marymoor Park, something we normally don't have time to do.  After loading the bikes on the bike rack to drive to our starting point, I ran to check the mail.  There was a credit card I didn't ask for, and as I've recently had my identity stolen,  we decided we had to deal with it immediately.  That delayed us for about twenty minutes.

I saw plenty of birds on the way to Marymoor, but none of them eagles.  On the way back,  probably about the halfway point, I saw a large bird of prey circling in the field to the left of the trail.  I asked my husband if he thought it was a hawk or an eagle.  He said he wasn't sure.  As I was contemplating this, I saw another one to the right of the trail.  I can't say definitively if it was  a hawk or an eagle, but upon checking my birding book later, I think it most closely resembled either a golden eagle, or a juvenile bald eagle, and our area is in both of their ranges.

My husband had no idea of my thoughts earlier in the day.  I don't often see eagles, maybe once every year or two.  Did God give me the idea to ask to see an eagle, and then arrange things so that I did, despite my hesitancy?  If He didn't, it was a remarkable coincidence.