Life Comes In Layers, You Know… June 23, 2009
Posted by Michelle Knoll in Devotionals, Journeys.Tags: airplane, altitude, atmosphere, bad experiences, childhood, clear sky, clouds, cotton balls, cottony clouds, fester, first flight, flight, flying, friend, go higher, God, good experiences, grand scheme, harsh experience, heavenly places, layers, orbit, patchwork, pea, problem, root, root problem, scenery, scheme of things, splinter, stratus, take-off, vast expanse, view, wife, wings as eagles
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I will never look at clouds the same way again.
I, the Cookie Lady, flew for the very first time in my life, this past weekend.
Yes, it’s true! I’ve never flown commercially before. Never trusted someone else with my life, that high off the ground. I would rather learn to fly so I could take myself on a trip!
However, I had an opportunity to visit a dear friend from college, plus meet his wife, and the excitement totally outweighed any nervousness I felt. So I stepped onto my very first Boeing 717, as giddy as a schoolgirl.
Take-off was GRAND. I giggled and grinned broadly, as the force of acceleration pressed me into my seat. “Sweet!” I thought, as the plane lifted off the ground. And then the feeling of… (more…)
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