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Thursday we will all be celebrating Thanksgiving Day. \u00a0For me, every day, is Thanksgiving Day, because I have so much to be thankful for! \u00a0 I was in my driveway this morning when I heard a plane fly overhead. \u00a0I looked up to see what kind plane it was, something I do all the time. \u00a0It took me back in and instant, to my youth, and that’s a long ways back! \u00a0From the time I was a little boy I’ve been obsessed with airplanes, and I am always looking for them, and listening for them! \u00a0When I was little, my neighborhood friend, Joe Guthrie, \u00a0and I used to take a cardboard box and draw instruments on it and stick clothespins in it as make believe switches. \u00a0We would sit in the make believe cockpit of our make believe plane and fly all over the world!<\/p>\n
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Through out my young life, my twenties and thirties, forties too, I wanted to be a pilot. \u00a0Raising a family, tight budgets and no time, it never happened. \u00a0I wasn’t bitter, it is the way life works out some time, I was o.k. with it, just little sad. \u00a0This morning when I looked up to see the plane I smiled and thought how gracious God is. \u00a0In my fifties, I watched a movie with my kids, and it featured a father and daughter flying an ultra light airplane. \u00a0A spark went off and the next thing I knew I was looking into ultra lights, then training and before I knew it, I was a “pilot”!!!! \u00a0So I’m thankful, got that, I’m thankful!!!! \u00a0I became a pilot, and not only that, I got to fly my little airplane in over 90 exciting locations across America, did a book and then learned to fly a different kind of ultra light and did another book, another bunch of incredible locations!!! \u00a0I’m thankful, so thankful!!! \u00a0Imagine that a dream had for almost fifty years, and God never gave up on it, even if I thought it was long past!<\/p>\n
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Then there is a 46 year incredible marriage, three great kids, (now adults), 6 wonderful grand children, a handful of dear, dear friends. \u00a0A profession that provides endless excitement and fulfillment. \u00a0Yes, I’m thankful, today and every day, and Thursday for sure!!!!<\/p>\n
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Blessings,<\/p>\n
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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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