AN AIRBORNE STORY

5/5/2025

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“His angels are like the wind while His ministers are like flames of fire!”

My son graduated Airborne school this week and I got to see him jump out of a plane outside of Fort Benning, GA. During the week he almost died twice:

1st time - he fell onto someone’s parachute on the way down and was plummeting to the ground because he lost his air in the path of the other paratrooper. Just before it was too late he was able to kick out of it and deploy his chute.

2nd time - on a night jump, he felt something was about to go wrong and he was having doubts and became scared - then suddenly the plane became silent (it is normally very loud) and he became very calm as the fear went away. He heard a voice inside his head say “You are going to jump.” My son described it as a deep and stern voice. He could see the Jump Master by the door and everyone else was silent, and the voice seemed like it came from all around him, as he described. When he jumped out of the plane into the darkness, the jump went well and he landed. While he was laying on the ground trying to disconnect his canopy, another paratrooper was heading right for him with his legs fully extended at about the speed of 15mph.

My son did not have enough time to get out of the way as the paratrooper above him was about to spear him feet first into his diaphragm while he was laying on the ground looking up helpless; nor could he roll out of it in time.

Keep in mind; there was ZERO wind the whole jump and after - then suddenly, the wind kicked up and dragged my son across the ground 20 feet to safety, narrowly missing the other paratrooper by less than a second. My son says he knew it was God or an angel, as it felt like something was dragging him.

Sunday at Mass during the responsory prayer with me and my son in attendance, the church sang:

“I WILL PRAISE YOU GOD, FOR YOU HAVE RESCUED ME!”

Behold the power of the Lord! Glorify Him alone and don’t forget that He is the one who can make us or break us!

I am blessed to be a Third Order Lay Dominican. However, the ideas expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the endorsement of or position of the Order of Preachers as a whole.

Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

mr. Scott Lowry, op (paul-patrick)

To proclaim the gospel to atheists (because I was one), satanists, witches, pagans, and members of the occult. For the salvation of souls.

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