{"id":5953,"date":"2018-01-01T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:40:52","slug":"three-feathers-encouragement-near-river-bj-rae-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/three-feathers-encouragement-near-river-bj-rae-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"I Give You Three Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Today I give you three feathers to enable you to succeed\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how arrows are made?<\/p>\n<p>The arrowsmith forms the arrow with wood, and then he gives it to a fletcher who attaches the feathers to it.\u00a0 Believe it or not, the most important part of the process is adding the feathers, because the feathers make the arrow fly straight.\u00a0 Three feathers make up the end of the arrow to make it fly quickly and straight.<\/p>\n<p>So today I give you three feathers to enable your arrows to fly straight so you can reach your goals in the next year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>The first feather, \u201cIntegrity\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The English language derives this word from the Latin word \u2018integer\u2019 (meaning whole and complete). Integrity requires an inner sense of \u2018wholeness\u2019 and consistency of character. When you have integrity, people see it in your actions, words, decisions, methods, and outcomes. When you are \u2018whole\u2019 and consistent, you bring that same you wherever you are, regardless of what happens around you. You don\u2019t leave parts of yourself behind. You don\u2019t have a \u2018work you,\u2019 a \u2018family you,\u2019 and a \u2018social you.\u2019 Integrity means that you are YOU all the time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>The second feather, \u201cUnconditional love for yourself\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unconditional love means loving without conditions or limits.\u00a0 It has no bounds and never changes.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/2020-resolution-near-a-river-bj-rae-bald-eagle\/\">Evy MacDonald<\/a>, whose doctors diagnosed her with ALS or Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease and gave her only 6 months to live, learned to love herself unconditionally and overcame her ALS.<\/p>\n<p>Love yourself unconditionally because unconditional love changes your thoughts, feelings, and how you interact with the world itself. Then the miracle of healing and success occurs in your body and in your life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>The third feather, \u201cLoving your neighbor as yourself\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matthew 5:43-48 instructs us to love all people as our neighbors.\u00a0 Also, it states that we should not exclude anyone from our love because of social status, a character fault, religious differences, racial differences, ethnic differences, citizenship differences, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If everyone in the world loved their neighbors as themselves, no one would hurt anyone else.\u00a0 There would be no violence or hatred.\u00a0 I would love to live in a world without violence and hatred.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your goals happen to be, persist always with your heart in the right place and you will succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Do your best to live by these three feathers and succeed in reaching your goals!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Let the\u00a0encouraging words\u00a0in these\u00a0near\u00a0a\u00a0river\u00a0posts help you<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">soar like an\u00a0eagle\u00a0above life\u2019s storms.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/dear-passion-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouragement-bald-eagle\/\">Passion leads to success!<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/category\/power-love-near-river-bj-rae\/\">Harness the power of love every day.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I give you three feathers to enable you to succeed\u2026 Do you know how arrows are made? The arrowsmith forms the arrow with wood, and then he gives it to a fletcher who attaches the feathers to it.\u00a0 Believe <a href=\"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/three-feathers-encouragement-near-river-bj-rae-eagle\/\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1588,77,1271,1269,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,1289,1327,1336,1335,1268,1333,297,1288,1299],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-fly-straight","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-reading-book","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-three-feathers","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19552,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/19552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}