It's A Small World--Story #1

Following a long wait due to a cancelled flight—not sure the reason for that—weary travelers boarded the plane in Dallas, Texas bound for Memphis, Tennessee. I made my way to a Center seat—odd, because I always try to get a window seat. Maybe they were all taken when we booked my tickets. A woman settled into the window seat and we began talking about where we’d come from and why we were going to Memphis. I had arrived from Reno and she had arrived from Portland. I shared about visiting Chester, California (Ideal and Les’s new home) and she shared that she had spent time at a family cabin on Lake Almanor—the Lake near Chester—every summer of her forty-something life; most recently she’d been there in August. We conversed and I learned more about the town and the lake.

This is my first installment in what I imagine will be an on-going series of Small World stories. Some details about this one: Chester has a population for 2,316. California is a big state and there are a lot of people there and this woman lives in Oregon. But she knew exactly where I’d just visited. Not only that, but after she settled into Seat 11F—I was sitting in 11E—a man came along who asked what her boarding pass had on it. Turns out she was supposed to be sitting in 10F.

Thanks to the cancelled flight I did not get to visit with Nathan on his last evening before heading out to Air Force basic training in Texas on November 13. But it’s OK: I know the Lord is with him and I have every confidence He is fulfilling His purposes in Nathan’s life. And we’ll get to see Nathan in December!