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Joshua Worthing Eagle

A Story of Worth, Transformation & Balance

Author: Samara Claudia Kezele Fritchman

Illustrated by: Kerry Weaver and Samara Fritchman
Cover Design by: Sean Bonsell

ISBN # 0-9672196-1-2

Joshua’s journey reflects poetically the human struggle for worth, transformation and balance—to alter misguided thinking and to see things differently. Come and take the journey. How can a golden eagle be so misguided? An eagle isn’t meant to walk! Yet, Joshua begins his life walking with the chickens when he was meant to soar. In the tradition of allegory, Joshua Worthington Eagle is a story for healing, hope and balance those focuses on emotional, spiritual and physical renewal.

With Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach gave many readers flight and a spirit for adventurous growth. As Jonathan struggled to be more, he endeared himself to the readers. They could see themselves in him and him in themselves. This short motivational story meant different things to different people, Jonathan Livingston Seagull promoted self-examination. In a like fashion, Joshua Worthington Eaglebecomes believable as the eagle striving to soar. Who wouldn’t be able to relate to his journey of transformation, worth and balance? Joshua will endear himself to a new generation of readers who will walk with him, soar with him, and see their own lives with a new vision.

EXCERPT from Joshua Worthington Eagle:

Drawn onward through the dark, Joshua silently moved toward the tree, as if compelled. He felt tired and frustrated, and kept asking over and over in his mind, “Where’s the truth? Where’s the balance? Is there contentment?” It was a long walk to the eagle’s tree, but Joshua kept on.

Physically drained, Joshua fell to the ground at the base of its trunk, his mind exhausted to a point of numbness. Peering upwards through the dark, he again caught sight of the bird he had followed. “That is who you could be.” Joshua looked up, startled, “Who said that, where are you?”

“I did,” said Owl who was sitting quietly on a low branch of the tree, only five feet from Joshua.

“What do you mean by that? You obviously do not know the truth. I’m a barnyard chicken, and my home is that nearby farm,” Joshua insisted, as he gazed in Owl’s direction. “If, as you profess to believe, that a chicken is all you can be, you would not be here. A life was given to you, but living your life is something you must do and is something for which you must take responsibility.

“A life is not meant to be compared, one to another, as you did with the other barnyard animals. The pig is happy, but lives blinded to his ultimate demise; the horse has security in her slavery, but no freedom; and, the rabbit is securely caged, yet is free in spirit. You cannot stand in judgment of someone’s life when you are looking from the outside in. First, you have to look at yourself, from the inside. The answers you need will come from understanding the questions. You’re seeking answers to unknown questions; seek first the clarity of your questions, then you will find the answers.” said Owl.