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From the writings of Lilias Trotter:

“As an eagle…fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings–so the Lord alone did lead him. Fluttereth over–the early stages of faith are reaching upward, like the eaglets for their food when the mother-bird is overhead. It is an older faith that learns to swing out into nothingness and drop down full weight on God–the broken-up nest of former ‘experiences’ left behind–nothing between us and the abyss but God Himself. Trained faith is a triumphant gladness in having nothing but God–not rest, no foothold–nothing but Himself. A triumphant gladness in swinging out into that abyss, rejoicing in every fresh emergency that is going to prove Him true. ‘The Lord alone’–that is trained faith.”