I Spread My Wings and Flew

"One day she decided to stop letting fear hold her back,

and chose to live bravely, from then on,

She flew."

I climbed in the little Cessna.

This was it,

the moment I was waiting for.

I steered the little single engine plane onto the runway.

I could not hear anything but my thoughts over the roaring engine.

I went over the checklist with the instructor.

...t-minus, 30 seconds until I would experience a feeling you only get once,

flying for the first time.

We started rolling down the runway,  I increased the throttle,

I pulled back on the yoke, easily,

I let the air take us from under the plane,

and before I knew it I was one with the skies.

I had a bird's eye view of the city.

It was the same place I had grown up in,

but never experienced from the air.

It was a completely different world.

I caught myself thinking while I was flying, "Wow,

I'm really flying a plane!".."this is crazy!"

Up in the air, I came across a few things....

1. Flying isn't as hard as people might think.

2. There's no traffic.

and 

3. Flying opened up a new chamber in my heart..

containing courage.

And if I ever come across anything the rest of my life, that I'm not sure I can do,

I will remember that day,

the day I flew..

and since He gave me the courage once, it will surely be there again.

If you would have told me when I was 16, "you are going to fly one day",

I would have laughed.

I didn't think it remotely possible.

I'm not the same girl I was then.

I have come to realized the incredible courage that God has bestowed in me,

in us all!

It is only because of Him that I finally spread my wings and flew.

I give Him the thanks.

So I encourage you to go after your dreams..

And

..."Until you spread your wings, you never know how far you'll fly!"

Perhaps there will be a day, we will all fly away...