I wish I could be with you as you…

I wish I could be with you as you open this letter in the year 2100. My mind is flooded with curiosity about your life, your hopes and dreams, and what kind of world is outside your window. But I must Confess. I am fixed on one question: Will you open this letter in a spirit of happiness and gratitude - or with disappointment and anger at my generation?

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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There is an awe waiting for you in this if you will let it in — our rituals exist in no small part to keep that awe alive, to make us stop and bless the ordinary moment before it slips by unnoticed; the very word enthusiasm means, at its root, "filled with God". I wish, more than I know how to say, that I could be sitting beside you as you read this — that I could see your face, and know your hopes, and the shape of the life you are flying. Thank the One who gave you the flight; then fly it in a way that would make Him glad He did. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

If these pages do their work, I would like you to feel two things when you read them: enlightened, that you learned something of value, and uplifted, that some weight came off your shoulders. I sometimes imagine one of you opening this letter long after me — in the year 2100, perhaps — and I confess I am fixed on a single question: will you open it in a spirit of happiness and gratitude, or with disappointment and anger? Let me clear away the wrong picture first, because most people think a legacy is a monument — a building with your name on it, a number in an account. — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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