Because I Fly

"Because I fly, I laugh more than other men. I look up and see more than they. I know how clouds feel. What it's like to have the blue in my lap. To look down on birds. To feel freedom in a thing called the stick. Who but I can slice between God's billow-legs and feel them laugh and crash with His step? Who else has seen the unclimbed peaks? The rainbow's secret? The real reason birds sing? Because I fly, I envy no man on earth."

-Author Unknown

Found that today on a friend's facebook page. Good stuff.

Prayer for a Pilot - Cecil Roberts

Lord of Sea and Earth and Air,
Listen to the Pilot's prayer-
Send him wind that's steady and strong,
Grant that his engine sings the song
Of flawless tone, by which he knows
It shall not fail him where he goes;
Landing, gliding, in curve, half-roll-
Grant him, O Lord, a full control,
That he may learn in heights of Heaven
The rapture altitude has given,
That he shall know the joy they feel
Who ride Thy realms on Birds of Steel