If At First You Don't Succeed...

...try, try again...

and that's what I did.

Today, I took the athletic training certification exam for the third time. Now I get to wait two-four weeks for the results...

...sigh...

I'm praying for a miracle...

SPECTACULAR...Day 2!

It was another beautiful day in Jacksonville. I got a call from Lauren after church, inviting me back down to the beach for the second day of the Sea and Sky Spectacular. I just had to go. I decided that I might not get an opportunity like this again...

Boy am I glad I went. It was incredible!! I got to meet some of the Red Devils, the official parachute team for the British Army, and the Black Daggers, the official US Army Special Operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team. I definitely got autographs and had someone take a picture of Lauren and I with Billy!

The fly overs were incredible. The Red Baron Squadron were awesome. Patty Wagstaff did an amazing low-level acrobatic routine. I got to see the Heritage Flight which consisted of a F-4 Phantom, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and my most favorite of all, the P-51 Mustang from WWII. It brought tears to my eyes.

The Blue Angels closed out the day. They were incredible. I have never seen flying like what they did. The perfection and precision of everything they did was incredible. I'm still in awe. It just made me even more proud to be an American. Our military is incredible...thank you for all that you do for our country!

Sea and Air SPECTACULAR

I think everyone should go to an air show.

It is pretty much the most incredible thing I've ever seen...

Thanks, Jami, Camden, and Matt for a great day at the beach!!

Binoculars

...they say hindsight is always 20/20...

how many times do we go into situations knowing that it's not really right and that the end result will be less then desirable?

i know i do it all the time...

i guess sometimes the risk of a bad ending is worth the journey to get there...

and then there are the times we go into situations thinking it will turn out great...missing all the warning signs...and in the end, hopes are crushed...

looking back, the warning signs are like NEON SIGNS...obvious, blatant, HUGE...i think, "how could i have missed that?!"

and sometimes there are no warning signs...you look back and you see nothing....nothing at all....

they say hindsight is 20/20...

but is it always?

most of the time i would agree...but not always...

is foresight ever 20/20? are things ever exactly how we plan them or hope they would turn out?

would i ever really want them to be?

i think a whole lot while i run...this can be both a good thing and a bad thing...a lot of times i'll play one scenario over and over and over again...i look back for the warning signs. sometimes i recognize them...sometimes i don't.

maybe my vision is just blurry sometimes...blurry in the good and blurry in the bad. i guess i just need to adjust the focus on my binoculars....or i just need to adjust my attitude.

or maybe i've been looking for something that was never meant to be seen in the first place...




So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18

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