In the movie, Chicken Run, dozens of chickens are held captive in the concentration camp of Tweedy Farms. Ginger is the chicken mastermind who keeps devising new plans to help her fellow chickens escape. Hope appears to arrive in the form of Rocky the Flying Rooster. One evening, Rocky sails over the fence and into the chicken farm. Unaware that he has been shot out of a cannon from a nearby circus, Ginger believes that Rocky the Flying Rooster can actually fly. Rocky is simply trying to escape the circus.

Seeing Rocky as the ticket to freedom for herself and the other chickens, and realizing he is desperate to hide from his big tent-pursuers, Ginger says, "Teach us how to fly and we'll hide you!" Not wanting to go back to the circus, Rocky conceals the truth about his "ability to fly" and promises, "Don't worry. I'll teach you everything I know."

The following morning, the chickens file out into the chicken yard. The dismal compound surrounded by razor wire fences and dotted by dilapidated chicken coops is suddenly transformed into an aerobics gym. Rocky leads the chickens through various flying exercises including push-ups and a treadmill.

The chickens' attempts to fly amount to a comedy of errors and a series of clumsy take-offs and hard landings. With all the success of a lead balloon, several portly hens run and leap off of the chicken coop roof, causing one spectator-rat to yell, "Poultry in motion!"

In another exercise, the chickens toss one another end over end, prompting the peanut gallery rats to yell, "Over easy!"

None of the chickens ever learn to fly. Ginger and the other chickens have to learn a hard lesson the hard way; chickens simply are not gifted to fly.

While there are few things more discouraging than attempting to exercise a gift we do not have, there are few things more rewarding than exercising the unique God-given abilities we do have.

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