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Prodigal: I needed some light so I turned this on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: I have a story about someone else needing some light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is from Franklin Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1971, as a newly licensed pilot, I was flying with my flight instructor from Vero Beach, Florida, to Longview, Texas. That night, we hit bad weather over Mobile, Alabama, and air-traffic controllers suggested we fly north toward Jackson, Mississippi, to avoid an approaching storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we rose above the clouds, I noticed the instrument panel lights flicker. A minute later, radios and instruments started going dead; then all our lights went out. Our situation was desperate, and as we flew an emergency triangle, we prayed to God for His protection. We decided to drop below the clouds and try to see the ground. Soon we spotted the distant lights of Jackson and headed for the airport’s rotating beacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We circled the control tower twice, then got a green light to land. Without any electrical power, we had to lower the landing gear manually. At that moment, all the strobe landing lights came on and slowly, safely we touched ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the landing lights went off. That’s odd, I thought, at least they could have waited until we taxied to the ramp. It was even odder when a man from the tower asked us, “Who gave you permision to land?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, little by little, we learned no one in the tower had seen us circling overhead. The green light had been flashed by a traffic controller who was explaining to his visiting pastor what he would do in a case a plane ever attempted to land without radio communication. The emergency landing lights were part of the same demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the whole story can never be explained–just accepted with gratitude, as I strive to serve the Lord each new day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why, my soul, are you downcast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why so disturbed within me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put your hope in God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for I will yet praise him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my Savior and my God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 42:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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