Thirty years later, I finally did it. I wanted to do it back then, but we had a young family and finances were tight. However here in Malaysia, the price seemed right, the ocean was beautiful and I am not getting any younger. So I did it today. I was hooked up to a parachute and a motor boat and took flight! At last, I experienced the pleasure of quietness and weightlessness; of soaring in the air without an engine. Far too quickly we returned and I floated back to the sandy beach from where I had departed.
So now I know a little more of what we all would love to do - wouldn't we? To soar like an eagle with little or no effort on the updrafts? What a thrill it would be to move on the wind like that.
Today I read from where God uses a word picture to describe his care of the very new nation of Israel. "You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself." Exodus 19:4 When Israel could not do it, God freed them from slavery.
And earlier this week I was reminded of the wonderful promise to God's people: "Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
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