A Bridge of Faith

For mankind to exist and prosper, someone has to continue taking one particular thing or combination of things and discovering how we might better use them. Inventors do this every day. The Lord created all things and placed them on the Earth, but it is up to us to turn them into more usable forms.

We can take a plastic plate and demonstrate how it can fly. We still use the plates for the original purpose, but isn’t it fun to toss a Frisbee around while playing with your kids or dog?

The Wright brothers took bicycle parts and some canvas and turned them into the first heavier than air object that could fly. Robert Fulton used fire and water to make steam to use as a power source for his engine to move his boat upstream against the water’s currents.

Comedian Aaron Wilburn tells a joke about the first person who looked at a cow and said, “I’m going to squeeze those things and drink whatever comes out. Friends, that took faith.”

Another wise soul was heard to say, “Wilber Wright showed man how to fly, but the Lord taught him to land.” It was a matter of faith for the Wright brothers to create their silly flying machine. Later generations merely accept it as a natural fact. However, it still takes faith, and a little drink, to give me strength to replicate their discovery.
Can you imagine being the first person to open the door of a space capsule and step out into the black nothingness of outer space with only the security of a small tether line? It took a great deal of study, planning and money to make it happen, true enough, but ultimately it was faith that made it happen.

We go to bed every night not knowing if there will be a tomorrow, but we have faith that it will come. I even make a list of things to do the next day and place it where I’ll have it as soon as I get up in the morning.

Dreamers and inventors look at things and don’t think about what it is; rather, they see what it can become. It takes faith to dream and believe in the possibilities.

I went to Corpus Christi, Texas to visit family with my wife some years ago. On Highway 181, as you enter the city, there is a large bridge which reaches 138 ft. nearly straight up, or it seems, into the air over the ship channel. The first time, and still today, it takes every ounce of faith I can muster to drive across that bridge. Would you like to have been the first person to drive a loaded eighteen wheeler truck across that bridge?

So, when someone tells you that something is impossible or that it doesn’t exist, just say, “Perhaps you’re right today, but will it be true tomorrow?”

You can click on this link and take a ride over the Harbor Bridge, Corpus Christi, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWruuKOEEuY

I invite you to join me on my disjointed venture in life by becoming a blog follower. It only takes faith.