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You're so awesome Bemused...

Flying takes more than just one.
A large pot off love, and the start of a gun...
...That tells you when it's time to fly,
One, two, three....let's catch the sun...

Together we will make this happen,
All great friends and I.
We have places we can go,
Not on the ground, but in the sky.

Limits, ...here we have none.
Dreams exist instead.
As we trust in the living God,
Whom we've discovered is not dead.

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Written by Iwillflyagain!

Yes. Exactly.

Carry on, Aussie!
Seeing life from different viewpoints
Has been one of the best things here.

Hey me too. The pilots were cool and I have fond memories of being allowed to fly the plane or doing things that in our more safety conscious world would never be allowed. Like taking the scenic route home, which meant below the tree top level.

Didn't loop de loop though, which is probably just as well as my stomach contents tend to eject when I do that sort of thing.

Here's to flying and good memories of flying

In an old tatty shoebox
Lies a prayer card of old
Five smiling faces
Each a story that could be told

Are those faces still smiling
Was it happy missionary life
Ambitious successful father
Dutiful obedient wife?

And what of the children
All grown up from decades past
Do they still smile so serenely
Were they smiles made to last?

Oh if you've been reading here
One story you'll know well
For his journey is well documented
His journey of mission hell

But how many other old prayercards
Have stories never to be told
Of lives spent to save the lost
Yet ended outside the Christian fold

What price for those prayercards
40 pieces of silver in local currency
Little lives sacrificed for the cause
Now existing, not living free

Yes, this is a sad thing to think about.

When I was young, my family prayed for the other NTM families pictured on many prayer cards. I was particularly fascinated by the families who had children about my age.

What a horror it was to learn, just within the past few years, that some of those very children were experiencing abuses I never imagined, during the 1950's and 60s, in countries like Bolivia and New Guinea!

Children do what they are told. Including smiling for photographs. Even if they're not smiling on the inside.