I live beside a large river that I cross each and every day I go to work... The old bridge is the lifeline to many who work in one state and live in another to the north... The traffic often slows as we cross the wide river, and thru the spans you can get a glimpse of the waterway. This morning I had the chance to see something strange<G> On the river was a thick fog.. and a tugboat was pushing a heavy barge down river into it.. I couldn't see the barge or what was so heavy.. But I did see in the sunlight the churning wake and the disturbed water as the prop's of the tug hefted the load down to the Ocean terminals... soon I couldn't see the tug.. and the wall of fog hid everything but the churning water! There was the strange scene... a solid wall and from the edge a churning mass of water shineing in the sun! *Why does that pilot of the tug keep the power on? .*How does he "see" thru the fog? *How does he "know" where he is heading? At the end of the Interstae bridge the wall of fog was so thick it obscured the cars in front so that everything slowed way down! ...behind was clear sunshine! *As these thoughts crossed my mind I prayed for understanding ... I'm pushing hard like that TUG BOAT for Royal Rangers! ----------------------------------------------------------- *Often my job "feels" like a heavy load... a barge full of dead weight. To everyone stuck in "traffic" I am outside of their world, I'm a river tug and they are traffic headed down the hyway, we only meet at a crossing... Rangernet is a crossing.. The Outpost Meeting is a crossing.. The Church foyer is a crossing... Recently in my old Outpost a FOG decended, hid the directions as to where to turn<G> doing nothing would have drifted me on to the rocks.. but FLIPPING ON THE RADAR cut thu the fog! (Prayer based decisive action..) The props still turned, and the load was still there, and when I looked at the radar screen I saw the ROYAL RANGER EMBLEM! ...a little speck of light showed me where I was.. and a chart showed me where I was wanting to go.. ...and the POWER WAS ON! It "feels" good to PUSH ON A LOAD!<G> *Look at me push hard into the un-seen fog! I KNOW where i'm going! I'm trained and Commishioned for SERVICE! the TRUTH is a friend! *Steady! *Steady! We keep the pace we established, keep the rev's up, the power on.. The world may never see our efforts, *mayby just the wake we leave..of disturbed water<G> .*But the payload is BOYS!~ and soon we will successfully deliver them as MEN! and we'll get there too! Guys... get your eyes off the fog! and settle them on the *Program! ...with God's Help- Do Your Best! Cdr.Duane -=A=- _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
