Good things about being single

[Bedwyr]

sweet, my mom's ex boyfriend does aerobatics, which is how i got into the whole flying thing. he would take me up in the decathalon and even teach me how to do loops and some other things. it was the most fun! yeah, i want to get back into it when I have time. Yes, I have soloed. I love being up in the air. At first I was kinda nervous about being in the plane by myself, I like having someone with me even if in silence. Then I realized I was able to be with God and see things from his perspective up there. Great worship time!

Keep an eye on the fuel gauges though. It's good to keep your brain grounded while you're in the air and your brain in the air while you're on the ground.

I know the feeling very well. It's how I made the transition from English major to pilot (and still consider myself an English major that happens to fly). Think of it this way. If you've ever seen or studied rennaiscance paintings you're familiar with the idea of a point of origin from which all lines emerge. Some used very complex series of origins. Likewise I've noticed that those conventional paintings that show the open arms of Christ do much the same thing. The open gesture of friendship His figure gives draws a set of lines that terminate at His center. You notice this with anyone who offers you an embrace. The gesture that they present to you is kind of like an invitation to their center. It's one small piece of why human touch is so important, it's actually a spiritual thing. Likewise, I get an emotional charge out of seeing the lines of a runway terminate at the horizon. It is to me an invitation to the "infinite" if just for a little while. I get to exist in a different way that is somehow spiritually closer to God. No, it's definitely not just the physical height that's there. There's a very significant beauty to it.

But of course I'm always busy and only *really* think about these things when I'm on the ground. To wit: "40... 50... 60... 75, rotate." "Positive rate, gear up." "500feet, throttle back, landing light off." "Roger, 3 november delta going to Departure."

Really busy.

Bedwyr

 

[BigToe]

hehe i know what you mean. you are totally paying attention to what you are doing while flying, but when you reflect on it later you realize that GREAT time God has given youto spend with him in an entirely new way than before you flew...

 

[Bedwyr]

hehe i know what you mean. you are totally paying attention to what you are doing while flying, but when you reflect on it later you realize that GREAT time God has given youto spend with him in an entirely new way than before you flew...

Reflect on this then. It's very famous and (in my opinion) maybe a little bit corny, but it's the closest thing aviation has to a hymn:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

Yeah, it's a different world. A different existence. Just don't forget it's not friendly and can kill you. That keeps a person humble in the presence of a good, but unsafe God. "Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you." - Mr. Beaver, "The Lion".

 

[Donny_B]

Donny, i have to mention the fact that in your post 32, you said that you could have two tvs and that if she didn't want to watch the tv, she could "go in another room and watch whatever, no biggie". That just made me smile, cos if it was me i would expect you to move your butt and watch something in the other room, i can hear future arguments already!

I re-read my earlier statement and I guess it can be read several ways:

There are compromises to be expected, such as tv programs, and for that you get 2 tv's. If you don't want to watch the Steelers game, then here you can go in the other room and watch whatever, and it's no biggie.

It could be read that she is a Steeler fan, but I want to see the Panther game on the other tv and I am going into the other room. In that case, I am already yielding! I noticed you immediatley read it as a confrontation.

I guess it's like they say Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. We men have to be extra careful in what we say, even though we are trying to be nice it can turn into an argument.

 

[ukok]

i'm not confronted Donny! But men and women do indeed seem as though they come from different planets sometimes. I was actually making lighthearted fun of what you said, guess i'm the one who will have to bear in mid how 'sensitive' you guys can be.

In addition to this. I personally like to be single because i have more time for the LORD.

 

[BigToe]

great thing about being single? i went on a cruise to hawaii and totally enjoyed every moment without having to worry about calling to check in with any boy or missing anyone or anything!

 

[pecan]

You know what I find great about being single? When the youth group needs an extra chaperone at the last minute, I can go. If a friend calls and wants to go out at 11pm, I can go. I still have sole decision-making responsibility for my life (with God's guidance, of course). I just spent a year in Northern Ireland and Serbia, experiencing all kinds of amazing things, and I would not have done that if I were married. So single can be very good, and very fun.

 

[Quiet Storm]

The thrill of pursuit. Not meaning being a "ladies' man" or anything, but moreso the thrill of the expectancy, being that it could be any girl on the face of the planet for all you know, wondering how you'd finally bump heads, etc.

 

[BigToe]

wouldnt it be funny if you literally bumped heads? haha. wow lack of sleep sorry hehe

 

[KJ2000AUS]

Yeah! the pursuit one is good. Quote from one of my friends, "how many single people are there that wished they were married, and how many married people are there that wished they were single". Enjoy singleness while u can i think, sometimes the waiting (or chasing hehe) period is much better than the getting.

 

[ukok]

I don't really like to agree with you because it smacks of 'discontented spouse syndrome' - always wanting what they haven't got, but none the less, there are instances when you finally get what you thought you wanted, only to discover that all is not what it seemed to be, and then you want out.

 

[DarkNLovely]

This is OLD! But I find it relavent and want to add more great things about being single:

Don't have to share your fries, bergers or desserts! That's right! I said it!
You can sleep on any side of the bed.
You can go out with your friends and not hear, "But honey, we were supposed to go to that dissertation that the PHD graduates are giving!"
Don't have to share your fries, bergers or desserts! That's right! I said it again!

Next!

 

[Thunder Peel]

No one else can eat up my pudding snacks