{"id":2980,"date":"2017-03-16T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2017-03-16T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:54:55","slug":"ready-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/ready-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You just never know<\/p>\n<p>You never know where an interest will lead<\/p>\n<p>You never know what a passion will inspire<\/p>\n<p>You never know who else you motivate<\/p>\n<p>You never know \u2026<\/p>\n<p>You might just change the world<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you a short story about a man named Milt<\/p>\n<p>He was a pastor by trade, but he spent his early morning hours\u00a0 watching warblers, spotting starlings, and tracking terns<\/p>\n<p>He had a fascination with birds. He studied them with intense fascination.<\/p>\n<p>He built a huge library on the subject and his two sons thought him a little \u2014 off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 89, his son, at the age of 25 contracted a fever. \u00a0He was delirious and nearly died.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His brother Will sat with him through the recovery, eventually moving from the hospital back to home. The two settled into his father\u2019s expansive study with the big windows and there they watched \u2014 birds.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, from those massive shelves, he began pulling those books on birds, sharing them with his brother. And the two settled on one in particular. <em>\u201c A Treatise on Terrestia and Aerial Locomotion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a book about the body, bone and feather structure of birds and how they are outfitted for flight. \u00a0They took the book to another step \u2013 thinking beyond birds. They began to dream about what it would take for a man to fly<\/p>\n<p>After his recovery \u2013 Orville began to nudge his brother into putting their dreams to flight.\u00a0 The man who almost died of fever began to soar in his thinking.<\/p>\n<p>He even wrote the Smithsonian Institute, asking for them to help\u00a0\u00a0\u201cconvince the world to repent of its lack of belief in flight\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/28\/A_Bird_in_Flight_by_Hamid_Naderi_Yeganeh.jpg\/1024px-A_Bird_in_Flight_by_Hamid_Naderi_Yeganeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0\n<h6><em>A Bird in Flight by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh via Wikipedia<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The interest of Bishop Milton Wright in birds\u00a0 turned into\u00a0 his passion which led to his son\u2019s dreams and obsession.<\/p>\n<p>I know you might not ever launch a man into flight. You might not be the one with the big dreams, head in the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>But your keen interest might just help inspire someone else. You never know your circle of influence<\/p>\n<p>You might just change the world.<\/p>\n<p>You never know<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just never know You never know where an interest will lead You never know what a passion will inspire You never know who else you motivate You never know \u2026 You might just change the world \u00a0 Let me tell you a short story about a man named Milt He was a pastor by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1627,1628,1629,1630],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dream","tag-flight","tag-orville-wright","tag-wright-brothers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ready to fly?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your keen interest might just help inspire someone else. 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