METAMORPHOSIS

 “Captain, wake up, we have a problem.”  My friend Bill heard these words in the 1950’s when he was the captain of a 4-engine Airforce plane on a training mission over the Atlantic during the cold war.  They had taken off from Frankfort Germany and were using mid-air refueling & old school navigation without the aid of GPS to fly over Europe and out over the Atlantic to land on an island somewhere in the ocean.  The crews were taking turns flying and sleeping because of the length of the flight.  Bill was the senior captain in charge of the entire flight.  He was not used to being awakened like this.

“What’s the problem?” Bill asked.  The crewman answered “We’re out of gas and nobody knows where we are, there is no land in sight and we don’t know what to do.”

Bill got up and as he was walking towards the front of the plane he silently said to God, “GOD, WE NEED A MIRACLE...