Life Beyond The Chair

Flight School!! I paused on my 5Th flight to take this photo, well as much of a pause as you can take at 2000 feet right? In the rear seat is the amazing Austin Decker, the CFI(certified flight instructor) that is brave enough to strap in behind me! I arrived last Wednesday and moved into the dorms at Purdue. I remembered well, the day I moved into the dorms at the University Of Minnesota when I first went off to college. As I did so many years ago, I packed up my life and went off on a new adventure with excitement and anticipation. Able Flight wasted NO time in getting me up in the plane and I think my total fear blocked out any memory of that first flight, it was a mix of complete elation and total fear! As the week went on and through the kind and patient teaching of Austin and the Christina, I feel like I just might get this figured out and be able to fly. The patience and professionalism of these young people is incredible. Their passion for helping me le

This post is part of the Five Minute Friday Free write. No editing, just writing for five minutes on a one-word prompt. WAY Which way do I go?  How many different times in your life have you asked yourself this question? I find in my life, I'm asking it on a constant basis. I wish all I needed to tell me where to go or what to do was on a roadmap or in an iPhone. When I'm lost my GPS is introspective thought, meditation, and Prayer, ALOT of Prayer. The problem with those methods of "navigation" is they don't respond with any clear answers. I'm instead guided reluctantly to the realm of Faith. The realm of faith can be exciting, exhilarating and intoxicating. Faith can be soul-sucking, crushing and defeating. Keeping the Faith week after week, months, years until I've got nothing left to even search for it anymore. Which way do I go? I make plans, knowing they are hollow, fragile just beyond reach. I make them anyway, defiantly w