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Pray for my weakness

Fr. Antonious Abba Moses


WHO PACKED YOUR PARACHUTE TODAY

Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam.  After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile.  Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands.  He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison.  He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb!  You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.  You were shot down!"  "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.  "I packed your parachute," the man replied.  Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude.  The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!"  Plumb assured him, "It sure did.  If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man.  Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform:  a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers.  I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning,' 'how are you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor."  Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.
Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute?"  Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day.  Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute.  He called on all these supports before reaching safety.
Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.  We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.  As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachute.

Today’s Synaxarium: 19 Hatour 1728
v     Consecration of the Church of St. Sergius and St.Bacchus
v     Commemoration of the Preaching of St. Bartholomew, the Apostle
Today we will read chapter 43 from the book of Psalm at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
+ سنكسار اليوم:19  هاتور 1728
v     تذكار كنيسة القديس سرجيوس وواخس بالرصافة
v     استشهاد القديس أبيبوس
آية اليوم:  طوبى للإنسان المتقي دائما، أما المقسي قلبه فيسقط في الشر (امثال 14:28)
حكمة اليوم : الــدمــوع أغــلــى مــن الإبــتــســامــه لأن الإبــتــســامــه تــســتــطــيــع بــرغــبــتــك ان تــهــديــهــا لأي شــخــص إمــا الــدمــوع فــإنــهــا لا تــســيــل إلا لأغــلــى شــخــص

أقوال الآباء:  قيل: أخطأ أخٌ في الإسقيط يوماً، فانعقد بسببهِ مجلسٌ لإدانتهِ، وأرسلوا في طلبِ أنبا موسى ليحضرَ. فأبى وامتنع من الحضورِ. فأتاه قسُ المنطقةِ وقال: «إن الآباءَ كلَّهم ينتظرونك». فقام وأخذ كيساً مثقوباً وملأه رملاً وحمله وراء ظهرِهِ وجاء إلى المجلسِ. فلما رآه الآباءُ هكذا قالوا له: «ما هذا أيها الأب»؟ فقال: «هذه خطاياي وراء ظهري تجري دون أن أُبصرَها، وقد جئتُ اليومَ لإدانةِ غيري عن خطاياه». فلما سمعوا ذلك غفروا للأخِ ولم يُحزنوه في شيءٍ