MORNING MANNA           7/29/20

When I was a boy in the 1940’s I couldn’t wait to get home from school and listen to Superman on the radio. I remember running as fast as I could leaping in the air and imagining what it would be like to fly. Mom claimed I had flat feet because I jumped off every building, barn, shed,and tree in the neighborhood. And she was right about the jumping part. Amazingly I never broke a bone, but neither did I ever fly like Superman. However I did eventually fly.

I still remember my first plane ride. I was working for a Civil Engineering firm that owned a Beechcraft Bonanza. The president and vice president were both pilots and we used the plane to fly to job sites out of town. I can still recall the lift off, the sight of seeing things appear smaller and smaller, going through and over the clouds, around storms, and ascending to altitudes that I had never been before. Being in that plane enabled me to do things I had never done, nor could ever do, except by being in that plane. It was exciting!

A short time after that I had another experience that was of much greater note than that plane ride. I became a Christian and as such was “in Christ“. That speaks of a personal permanent union with Christ, my spiritual position and sphere of existence. Being “in Christ” changed me from within and continues to change me even to this very day. In Christ I have experienced peace that passeth all understanding, joy unspeakable and full of glory, love that passeth knowledge, hope that is both sure and stedfast, and life more abundant. None of this would have been possible were it not for my position of being “in Christ”. There I have found  the satisfaction that I never had before.