Flight Ministry Opportunity

Steve Brown of the Key Life Network recently told about traveling cross country
by air when one of the passengers died. The plane had to make an emergency
landing at Dallas-Ft.Worth to allow the body to be removed.

Many of the passengers were returning from a cruise in the Caribean, so the
flight had been something of a party-plane atmosphere up until the death. As
passengers re-boarded the aircraft everyone seemed to be in a rather somber
mood. Attempting to be the great man of God a lot of people think him to be
and sensing a ministry opportunity, Steve approached the head flight attendant
and offered his services.

"I'm a minister and I've had to deal with death and dying quite a bit in my
career. I'd be happy to make myself available to talk to the passengers if you
think that would help them deal with this untimely death," he volunteered.

The flight attendent considered what he's said for a few seconds, then looked
him square in the face and without a blink repied, "Thanks for the offer, but I
don't think that'll be necessary reverend. We're going to serve free drinks for
the rest of the flight."

With that, Steve smiled politely and quietly returned to his seat.

From Key Life Network 9-22-09 at www.keylife.org.
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Worth Repeating......

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently."

- Agnes De Mille

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Instruments Of God

For years my husband and I enjoyed our daily walks together. Sometimes we talked
quietly other times we were just together in silence.

But our walks lost their glow when, after an illness, I had to walk as therapy.
It changed our gait, our buoyancy. Moreover, it was changing my attitude. What's
the use,

I thought. It's doing no good. Then one day a little note arrived in the mail.
It said: "Keep it you two lovebirds! You make my day as you pass my window every
afternoon. Looking so fit and happy. I am a shut-in and don't know what I would
do without the inspiration you give. 'Things will get better' your presence
seems to say..."

Each of us is an instrument of God, sometimes inspiring one another without
knowing it. This week, let someone know what they secretly give you.

--June Masters Bacher

This devotional is excerpted from Daily Guideposts book of devotionals, now
available on www.OurPrayer.org

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