Air Commodore Vishal was a Jet Pilot. In a combat mission, his fighter plane was destroyed by a missile. He, however, ejected himself and parachuted to safety.
He won acclaims and appreciations from many.
Five years on, one day he was sitting with his wife in a restaurant. A man from another table came to him and said "You're Captain Vishal! You flew jet fighters. You were shot down!"
"How in the world did you know that?" asked Vishal.
"I packed your parachute," the man smiled and replied.
Vishal gasped in surprise and gratitude and thought if the parachute hadn't worked, I wouldn’t be here today.
Vishal couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. He wondered "how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because I was a fighter pilot and that person was just a safety worker".
*So friends ... who is packing your parachute?*
Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day.
We need many kinds of parachutes– we need the physical parachute, the mental parachute, the emotional parachute, and the spiritual parachute.
We call on all these supports every single day of our lives.
Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.
We may fail to say hello, please, 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, and this coming year, recognize the people who pack your parachute!
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