Tuesdays Thought

Good Morning Friends

The story is a repeater, I enjoy reading it every time I use it. Sometimes we roll through life in autopilot, missing out on some great opportunities. Each of us have done this before, my reminder to keep me on track is at the beginning and ending of each day is to remember what I’m thankful for at that moment.

Who Packed Your Parachute?

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may

fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has

happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat

missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and

parachuted into enemy lands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese

prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on 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 white hat, a bib in the back, and bell bottom

trousers. I wonder 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. As you

go through this week, this month, this year... recognize people who pack your parachute!

Today's humor.....

A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named 'Amal.' The other goes to a family in Spain, they name him Juan'. Years later; Juan sends a picture of himself to his mum. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wished she also had a picture of Amal. Her husband responds, ''But they are twins. If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal

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