Encouragement

As believers, loving others is not to be an option, it’s to be a lifestyle. No one does that better than my wife Cheryl.

Recently we were on a 3 1/2 hour flight to San Francisco. I was in the window seat, Cheryl was in the middle, and a woman we didn’t know was in the aisle seat. I do some of my best work on a plane, so I was in a groove and time seemed to pass quickly. I knew Cheryl was talking to the other woman, but didn’t pay much attention. I was in a zone and very focussed. (Cheryl’s always complimented me on being able to ignore everything around me 🙂 )

At one point I looked up, and Cheryl was crying…and so was this woman. Of course my first thought, as every man thinks when a woman cries, was “what did I do?” As I later learned, this woman has just returned from her father’s funeral. Cheryl, who lost her father over a year ago, was able to minister to this woman on the plane to San Francisco. They traded contact information and Cheryl made herself available after this brief encounter ended.

This week, Cheryl received this email: