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Preface

Larry Walters was a truck driver, but his life-long dream was to fly. He tried

to join the Air Force, but his poor eyesight had disqualified him. So, one day he took

matters into his own hands.

He went down to the local army-navy surplus store and bought forty-five

large weather balloons and a tank of helium. He blew up the balloons, attached them

to a lawn chair (which he temporarily anchored to his Jeep), packed a BB gun and

some sandwiches, and cut the anchoring cords.

Larry’s launch climbed faster and higher than he expected, and in a matter

of minutes, he rose to an elevation of 11,000 feet! Now scared about shooting out

any of the balloons at such a high altitude, Larry stayed up there, sailing around for

fourteen hours.

Eventually he drifted into the

approach corridor for the Los Angeles In the great musical South Today
International Airport. A PanAm pilot Pacific, Mary Martin sang, is a
radioed the tower about passing a guy in great
a lawn chair who had a gun in his lap. “...If you don’t day
Finally the Navy dispatched a have a dream,

helicopter and performed a successful if I don’t
rescue. have a dream,
As Larry was being led away

by the authorities, a reporter called out how are we going

and asked, “Mr. Walters, why did you to make a dream
do it?” come true?”
Larry replied, “Hey, if you want

to turn your dreams into a reality, you
can’t just sit around.” *
Isn’t that the truth? This point was brought home to me further from a movie 7
I watched, “The Closer.” I want you to picture how this scene opens. In a large, dark
auditorium you see hundreds and hundreds of people waiting to hear a speech from

Millionairethe top income earner. He is the top of the top. They are all there waiting to hear
his advice on how to become a superstar like him. The lights dim and the only thing

Mindsetyou really see is a spotlight focused on the podium. Then, he walks out and says this:
* Flemming, Sermon Notes, Oct. 18, 1998, Springvale Baptist Church