#jesus flying his cross like a glider

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Fuck ai entirely but i found this thing while scrolling tumblr and I'm laughing my ass off rn

[steveleeuk]

A few years ago now I read the amazing story of two men who had a dream to take off and fly like a bird. It was the oldest of dreams and had baffled the most brilliant minds in the world from Leonardo de Vinci to Thomas Edison. Inventors across the globe were backed by big money in the race to fly but in the end,  it was two brothers and a simple powered glider that unlocked the great mystery of flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the most unlikely people to go down in history as genius inventors but when you look into their story, the clues are there. 

Their father was a preacher who travelled America communicating the Gospel of Christ and Wilbur had initially intended to follow in his footsteps. The Wright brothers came from a long line of Jesus followers, one of their ancestors was among the first Christian settlers who crossed the Atlantic from England on the Mayflower. Both of their parents were deeply involved the campaign to end slavery and worked tireless for social reform and the rights of women in America. I’m sure that something of the wild nature of God’s eternal plan was in Orville and Wilbur although little is known about their own personal faith. The Bible says that we are made in the image of God and carry the disguising marks of our Creator. Perhaps it is in our very nature to fly. The Wright brothers ran a very successful bicycle repair business and used the profits to finance their aviation dream. It was inside the bike shop that they designed the first aeroplane, the Wright Flyer which still exists today and featured in the movie ‘Night of the Museum 2’. 

The world was slow to accept what happened on December 17th 1903 as anything more than a crazy stunt by  a couple of cranks but the world would never be the same because of what they achieved. Some say that day in December all those years ago was the turning point of history but that’s not really true. Significant as it was, there is another day in December when we mark the moment God stepped into human history. Jesus came to rescue us all from the things that keep us earthbound and rob us of the eternal life that God intended for us. There is a flight we will all embark on when we take-off from this life and our response to Jesus Christ determines where we will land.