The Pastor's Soul Volume 7: Deepening Your Conversation With God

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I HATE TO FLY. But since I fly a lot, I have developed several techniques to steel myself against the cramped seating, the stale air, and the terrors of turbulence. Escapist reading material and a tape player with a headset do nicely. The overall desired effect is to implode into myself until I get off the plane. For this reason I rarely engage in conversation in flight. Besides, the effort involved in looking at a seatmate gives me a crick in my neck. If I want to ward off a gregarious fellow traveler, I open my Bible in my lap.

Such was my mood as I sat awaiting a flight in the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. So I was dimly aware of the well-dressed couple standing in front of me. Each was shouldering a large leather attache bag, fumbling with papers and tickets inside and chattering to the other. I guessed them to be attorneys. Maybe it was the tasseled loafers the man was wearing.

In the middle of the conversation, a strange thing happened. The woman puckered her lips and moved to kiss the man. She came within mere inches of his face, only to realize that he wasn't aware of her intentions. He just kept on fumbling with the contents of his bag, talking to her but not looking at her as he did. She unpuckered and withdrew to her bag and chatter.

They had my attention. I laid my book aside and took off my headset to watch this little drama. Then something even stranger happened. The man stopped fumbling in his bag, puckered up his lips and moved to kiss her, came to within inches of her face, only to discover chat she didn't notice what he was attempting. He chickened out. It was now his turn to go back to his bag and chatter.

I was on the edge of my seat mentally as the dance became stranger still. She again ...

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