Lou Mercer Words of Wisdom: Welcome to Texas little Colorado girl!
I hit the send button on that post last night and went to bed. My mind immediately told me, that I was not going to sleep and it was right, but then it always is, isn't it? Momma told me more than once that everything happens for a reason and we all know momma was always right. Momma was always right. So this morning I will reveiw with a clear head .
Was that flight deliberately detained to make me suffer or was it perhaps detained to change the course of my day to make me just late enough to avoid a car wreck or something else that was in my future that only God could know? Something bad, or to give me something good? Or was it even about me?
God has his own way of reaching down and touching people and places that need touched and I like to think that He spends way more time taking care of me than I take thanking him for doing it! And you know what, it may not have been about me at all!
Maybe the man setting beside me needed to hear something I said. Or maybe the lady two rows back who was so helpful in charging my phone on the bank of chargers needed to help someone that day. Maybe she was missing her mother. Or someone on that flight, or someone waiting for that flight to land needed to be detained to avoid a situation. Or maybe the man across the aisle who could not set still needed a lesson in patience.
I do know this was harder on my son and my friend Ross, then it was on me. My mother had a caveat that she spat out fairly regularly and that was this "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." And I have come to know that when something goes wrong it immediately (if not sooner) snowballs into an avalanche, much like the lemmings walking off the cliff!
So, in the cold hard light of day, I have this go say..I had a wonderful trip down to Dallas, and had a wonderful time seeing the sights and my friends (They are actually Sam and Allen's friends, but they accept me.) I made a (hopefully) new friend on my 12 hours on the plane. There were restroom facilities, and I did not suffer a bit. I wanted to get home earlier, but that did not happen. So be it!
Thank you, Sam and Ross, for being so caring and considerate in the drop off's and pick-ups so I did not even have to worry about anything!
And thank you God for always being around close enough to catch me if I fall!
