"I feel just like a child..."

Jumping out of a plane has been two of THE best decisions I have EVER made in my life. Ever.
There is no way to explain it. I can't just make someone feel what I felt.
Such as sitting there on the ground with a childish grin, watching the canopies fall, naïve of what was to come.
Or putting on the gear joking with the instructors as if we were about to get on a bike.
Or even the plane ride up realizing that everything's getting smaller, but it looks exactly like a movie so you can't get your mind to acknowledge that you're sitting in a real plane.
And then the moment the door opens and you're simply being filed to the opening of a moving plane.
You're trying to remember everything they told you.
And the next minute racing through the air with your eyes watering and you can see the earth below you, but it's not getting any bigger even though you know you're moving so fast and you've never felt anything like that in your entire life so you don't know where to place it in your brain or senses.
Then all of a sudden you're floating and you're thinking, "that was so quick" am I already floating back to the ground?
And you're on the ground trying to figure out if you actually just did that.
And you have to go again.

And you do. And it's all the same except this time you turn your brain off and you soak in it.
And you take a little control and responsibility and you feel like you could hold the world.
And then you land. And you're in love.
And you're driving home with a great friend, maybe one of the coolest cats in town. The only one who gets it, at least for a while.
And you have to go again.

Those two jumps were the product of wanting to experience life. A piece of what our Father has given.  And really I think the most insane part is the aftermath. I have never been addicted to a substance, but I can imagine that is the closest relation. Being so tired but not being able to shut your eyes for more than 10 minutes because they pop open in thought of what that experience was. And realizing that most people will never have that experience because of fear or maybe better judgment, but being so grateful that God didn't tell you no.  At least at that time and in that place.

 

Soundtrack to a perfect day.