They Do Not Know....

Psalm 82 says:

⁵They do not know, nor do they understand;
        They walk about in darkness;
        All the foundations of the earth are unstable.
⁶I said, "You are gods, 
        And all of you are children of the Most High.  

I came across something the other day in my surfing (don't ask me how or where).  It was the story of an eagle who was raised by a chicken...and so "it did not know, nor understand and it walked about in darkness."  The story was by Anthony De Mello. 

A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked. "That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth--we're chickens."

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
From the book Awareness, by Anthony de Mello, S.J.