{"id":16800,"date":"2012-03-14T00:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:03:40","slug":"christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-addresses-eglin-prayer-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-addresses-eglin-prayer-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Fighter Pilot, Astronaut Addresses Eglin Prayer Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Air Force Col James Dutton, a NASA astronaut, addressed the Eglin National Prayer breakfast<\/a> and reminded his listeners of the sense of awe — and the presence of God — that people often miss in their daily lives:<\/p>\n

“The world around us is really amazing,” he said. “Our sense of wonder we had as a kid is often lost when we become adults…”<\/p>\n

“Being in orbit was like being a two-year old and being a fighter pilot is like being a six-year-old again,” he joked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MajGen Kenneth Merchant told Col Dutton he “gave us a feel for what it is like to touch the heavens.”\u00a0 Dutton reiterated that it is “tremendously evident” there is a God in the universe, and you don’t have to go to space to see Him:<\/p>\n

“There is something out there worthy of our awe,” said Dutton who believes it is tremendously evident there is a God of the universe to be seen not only from the stars, but here in our daily life looking out at the nature and people around us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Col Dutton previously addressed the US Air Force Academy — where the Astro Department head said<\/a><\/p>\n

“Col. Jim Dutton is exactly the kind of officer every cadet in this room should aspire to be…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a side note, Col Dutton isn’t the only Christian NASA astronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Air Force Col James Dutton, a NASA astronaut, addressed the Eglin National Prayer breakfast and reminded his listeners of the sense of awe — and the presence of God — that people often miss in their daily lives: “The world around us is really amazing,” he said. “Our sense of wonder we had as a kid is often lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,249,96,674,5285,181,3050,2,21,237,179,11,17,10,171,65],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-astronaut","tag-christian","tag-eglin-afb","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-james-dutton","tag-kenneth-merchant","tag-military","tag-nasa","tag-national-prayer-breakfast","tag-officers-christian-fellowship","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}