CAVU
CAVU
Those letters hung on a plaque on President George H. W. Bush's wall from the days of when he was a young navy pilot back in his late teens. When he became the president, he brought the plaque with him to the Oval Office. They were four letters that everyone on his staff understood and knew that the president lived by.
CAVU
Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited.
President Bush explained that CAVU was the kind of weather he and his comrades in arms needed whenever they flew off their carrier in the Pacific to carry out a mission.
'Ceiling and visibility unlimited' became his mantra that he lived by until the day he died.
The sky is the limit!!!
Nothing is too hard!!!
Nothing can't be accomplished!!!
CAVU!!!!
Ceiling and visibility is unlimited so let's get the job done!!!
In an interview, President Bush said that he confidently told his guardian angel every morning, that his life was CAVA, because he knew that with God on his side it was true!! On the morning of the day he died, his best friend and his former Secretary of State, James Baker was visiting him. He said to James, "Where are we going today James? What's our mission?" James took the hand of his old friend and said, "We're headed to heaven!" and President Bush replied, "Yes! I'm looking forward to that! CAVU!"
We cracked pots have the most exciting, adventurous,
fulfilling life, with a capital L, on the planet!!!
We aren't like the rest of the world!!!
We are strangers and aliens passing through on our way to forever
who have GOD as their compass, commander and cheerleader!!!
We are citizens of heaven who serve in His Kingdom,
that cannot be shaken and will never end!!!!
We are on earth to accomplish His purposes and to bring Him glory and
that's actually possible, because He has made our hearts, HIS home!!!
Our motto is CAVU!!!!!
There is nothing our God can't do!!!
Ceiling and visibility is unlimited!!!!
NOTHING is impossible because the maker of the sky is FOR US!!!! He fights for us!!! He exchanges our weakness for HIS strength!!!! He guides us in HIS ways which are perfect and beyond understanding!!!!
He parts seas, crumbles walls, mutes lions, rains manna from the sky, brings water out of rocks and stills storms, for those who belong to Him!!!!
We cracked pots aren't exempt from trials, disappointments and pain, but for those of us who love Him with all of our hearts, souls, minds and strength; for those of us who trust Him no matter what, He works it all out for HIS good, according to HIS purposes!!!!
He uses our chains to advance The Gospel.
He uses jail time...
He uses cave time...
He brings eternal beauty out of ashes...
He raises armies out of dry bones!!!!
CAVU!!!!
Ceiling and visibility unlimited, is how it is for US, His kids, His sheep, His olive trees, His servants, His friends, His cracked pots, who have chosen to fall on our faces before His throne...and stay there.
David wrote that for those who fear God - for those who are bowed in His presence and acknowledge that life is hopeless and meaningless without Him and that in their own strength they can't do squat - "He will raise a banner and unfurl it against the bow of the one who wants us dead..." (Psalm 60:4)
David never, ever, went into war without a banner, or what we would now call a flag. A banner was hoisted high on a pole to let the troops know which direction to strike from, plus it was a source of encouragement! The soldiers knew that as long as the banner was flying, their leader was pressing forward with the battle!! An unfurled banner declared "VICTORY IS OURS!!!! VICTORY BELONGS TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD!!!!"
The sight of Israel's banner flying high in the sky also made the opposing army tremble in their boots, because it reminded them who they were up against!! To the enemy it was like a billboard in neon lights that flashed, "YOU'VE LOST BEFORE YOU EVEN BEGIN!!! WE ARE THE ARMY OF THE ONE TRUE LIVING GOD WHO NEVER LOSES!!!!"
What David did for his troops, is what GOD does for US, His troops, His army, His soldiers, who have been called to fight the good fight!!!!!
He raises a banner and unfurls it against the bow of the one who wants us dead...and that banner says, CAVU!!!!!! His banner announces to us that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE - that HE IS ON OUR SIDE - that HE'S GOT IT - that He NEVER loses!!! AND it reminds our foe that THE WAR IS OVER BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS because there is NO ONE LIKE OUR GOD!!!
David went on to write in Psalm 60....
GOD has SPOKEN from His sanctuary, "IN TRIUMPH I will give you what I have written!!!! I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth. Gilead is MINE! Manasseh is MINE! Ephraim is my helmet! Judah is my scepter! Moab is my gargage can! I toss my sandal at Edom and over Philistia, I SHOUT IN TRIUMPH!!!!!" (Psalm 60:6-8)
In other words, "YOUR ENEMY WILL BOW TO ME!!!! YOUR ENEMY IS UNDER MY CONTROL!!!! YOUR ENEMY DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE BECAUSE I - THE ONE TRUE LIVING GOD - HAVE DECLARED IT AND WHAT I SAY - IS!!!!"
David responded, "AH LORD!!! YES!!!! IT IS YOU who gives us aid against the enemy!! The help of man is worthless!!! BUT WITH YOU, WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS!!!!! WITH YOU, WE WILL TRAMPLE DOWN OUR ENEMIES!!!"
Everything that stands in opposition to OUR GOD will be destroyed!!!
Every scheme of the evil one will be crushed!!!!
THE BATTLE IS WON!!!!!
HIS BANNER IS FLYING HIGH!!!!
SO HOW CAN WE NOT KEEP MARCHING AND WIELDING OUR SWORDS
WHEN THE CEILING AND VISIBILITY IS UNLIMITED!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Whatever you're facing today - know that GOD IS FOR YOU - and so nothing is impassable, uncrossable, unattainable, uncrushable, unbeatable
or impossible!!!
Yup, we'll believe that till our last breath,
Maurice & Sue