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How To Eat A Cessna Airplane
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2012 (message contributor)
HOW TO EAT A CESSNA AIRPLANE
Michel Lotito was an extraordinary man. This elegant Frenchman had a love for food and a fondness for eating unusual objects like bicycles, shopping carts and televisions. His odd appetite earned him the nickname Monsieur Mangetout (Mr Eat Everything).
I first heard of Lotito when he consumed a Cessna 150 airplane. The fact that somebody would eat a plane is bizarre to say the least and I can’t really tell you why he did it. However, can tell you how he did it
I’ll be the first to admit that Lotito was a little strange. He suffered from pica, a psychological disorder in which people compulsively eat non-food items such as dirt and plastic. Lotito’s condition was first diagnosed around the age of nine, when he started munching on parts of the family TV set.
To make a long story short, he came to realize that he could turn his compulsion into a career and became an entertainer of sorts. He ate beds, chandeliers, television sets through the years until turning his attention to a Cessna 150 airplane.
Which brings us to the question: How do you eat an airplane? Seems impossible, doesn’t it? Not if you eat it one bite at a time, apparently. And that’s just what Lotito did. He chopped the plane up into tiny bits. Parts small enough that he could swallow them easily. Each day he ate about two pounds of tiny plane pieces. And after two years...it was gone!
You and I work on developing the demeanor of a sold out follower of Jesus Christ the same way - one quality at a time. Start by asking God to take greater control of your life and to turn your heart towards spiritual things.
(From a sermon by Guy Glass, The Demeanor and Disposition of a Follower of Christ, 5/23/2012)
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