Faith & Life Inspirational Message

Occasionally I have reason to go back over some things that I have written.   That can be a fun, rewarding experience.   Certainly not everything I have written is worth preserving.   Sometimes what we write is for the moment.   Clearly this would be the case with many papers we write when we took classes in school.   Many of us have jobs in which we have to write stuff for a specific moment.                Computers make saving stuff much easier.   With computers we can create folders, organize all sorts of things and now store things “in the cloud,” whatever that means!   I think it means whatever I write and store in the cloud will live longer than I do.   Maybe that is a new version of life after death!             Obviously I have lived long enough to remember the days before computers.   I recall the time when ha...

I was sitting comfortably in the plane seat as we taxied to the runway for the takeoff.   I was heading home again after a couple days away for a conference.   The pilot’s voice came on the intercom to tell us the weather back home was not as nice as the weather we were leaving.   That was ok, since I already knew it. And then the pilot told us that after taking off, he would be climbing to 37,000 feet, which would be our cruising altitude for the flight home.   I did not think much about it in the moment.   I have flown enough that the altitude for the “cruise” does not concern me.   But then, I began to ponder it.   I am the kind who still finds it remarkable that so many people can be in this machine with two wings that speeds down a runway and then gently leaves the ground and begin a climb into the air.   I really have no conception of how much one of those creatures weighs, but I know it is a huge number.   Slowly, this metal bird...