EAA

This time of year, keeping an eye on the sky can yield some pretty amazing sites. It's EAA week where we live and everyone, it seems, is headed to Oshkosh.

Yesterday, for example, I heard a low, rumbling sound and looked up to see a B-25 Mitchell bomber! It's named after General Billy Mitchell, a World War I veteran who is called 'the father of the Air Force." Mitchell is buried in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's airport is Mitchell Field.

Big bombers were the coolest thing when I was growing up. B-17's, B-25's, B-52's. I've seen them all, and flying too!

There is coming a time when we all will hear a different sound. It won't be the sound of a massive Rolls Royce engine, but a simple shepherds horn.

Our eyes will also look skyward then, wondering where the sound is coming from and what it means. Of course, those who KNOW the sound of the shofar will no longer be here to explain its true meaning. We will be gone. We will have been taken away.

"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

We who believe will ALL be flying on that day. Soaring through the clouds just like a Mitchell bomber. Our mission will be to meet Jesus in the air. And that we will.

I, for one, can NOT wait.