Feathers

           Here is a good story illustrating the danger of envy. It comes from MOODY’S ANECDOTES:

            There is a fable of an eagle which could outfly another, and the other

didn't like it. The latter saw a hunter one day, and said to him: "I wish you would bring down that eagle."

            The sportsman replied that he would if he only had some feathers to put into his arrow. So the eagle pulled one out of his wing. The arrow was shot, but it didn't quite reach the rival eagle; it was flying too high.

            The envious eagle pulled out more feathers, and kept pulling them out until he lost so many that he couldn't fly, and then the sportsman turned around and killed him.

            When we envy, we most hurt ourselves.

“A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot” (Prov. 14:30.)