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We worry about our kids, and then our kids worry about us.
Just before the start of the Gulf War, President George H.W. Bush penned a reassuring letter to his children, who were no doubt worried about the pressures their dad was facing as the Commander-in-Chief.
In an interview later in life, he talked about his experience as a Navy pilot and then shared part of that letter which explained why a plaque with the four letters, CAVU, hang in his home office.
“CAVU was the kind of weather we Navy pilots wanted when we were to fly off our carrier in the Pacific,” he wrote. “We had little navigational instrumentation, so we wanted CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited). Because of the five of you whose hugs I can still feel, whose own lives made me so proud, I can confidently say that my life is CAVU and it will be that way until I die. All because of you.”
In John 14:1-3 Jesus reassured His followers. “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God and believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”
As we begin the New Year, let’s live with confidence that we have CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) because our faith and hope is in the one was paid the price for your sins and mine. If you don’t know Him as your personal Lord and Savior, invite Him to come into you heart today (John 3:16).
In His Joy,
Steve D. Whitaker
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