*Daily parachutes………* * *
*Charles Plum, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a Communist prison. He survived that ordeal and now lectures about lessons learned from that experience. One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!" "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did -- if your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform -- a Dixie cup hat, a bib in the back, and bell bottom trousers. I wondered how many times I might have passed him on the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you,' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor." Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know. Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute? Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day." Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety. His experience reminds us all to prepare ourselves to weather whatever storms lie ahead. SUGGESTION: Recognize and be gracious to people who pack your daily parachutes, and strengthen yourself to prevail through tough times.* * * *Promise for the Day:** Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your power. Psalm 21:13 (New King James Version)* * * * * * * *AGAPE LOVE DIVINE MINISTRIES* *Come Discover Love Beyond Reason* Note: We at *AGAPE LOVE DIVINE MINISTRIES *respect your On-line Privacy. Under Bills.1618, Title III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress this mail cannot be considered spam as long as we include contact information and a remove link for removal from our mailing list, so we do not believe this email is unsolicited. If you do not wish to receive our e-mails and/or lists, click on the link below and press SEND: * mailto:[email protected]?subject=remove_me.please<[email protected]?subject=remove_me.please> * reply from the exact address to which this was originally mailed to or provides the address (es) to be removed. Any inconvenience caused is regretted. Thanks God bless you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sap-vendor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
