“The next morning the chaplain asked if I would pray for the congregation. The Lord led me to pray Psalm 91. Later that day we prepared to jump. Although it was my 90th jump, I didn’t have a good feeling about it, but unless the wind speed canceled it, it was a go.”
Keith and his team were in the air, outfitted with steerable parachutes.
“The wind speed is right at the cutoff but it’s holding,” Keith was told. “You’re clear to jump!”
When Keith jumped, it felt as though a fist slammed against him. The wind hit him with such force it blew him backward so fast he had no ability to steer his parachute. He hurtled toward earth, praying in tongues like machine-gun fire. He saw rocks and a camel speeding toward him. Without warning, the wind flipped him over and entangled his legs in the lines.
He hit the unforgiving ground hard, but even then the wind didn’t let him stop. It dragged him over rocks and hard-packed earth so fast the ground crew couldn’t catch him in their pickup!
Somehow, while being dragged on his back, Keith twisted his foot enough to get untangled. He finally stopped.
“Sir! Are you OK?”
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