Welcome to Season 7 of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your faith and help you strengthen your relationships.

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a variety of home mortgage needs. You can reach him today at 813-380-8487. Thank you so much for listening in

today. Let's get started. Welcome back. I'm so thankful you're listening in today. This is one of those fun episodes

where I get to tell you a story, someone that I met recently. If you followed the ESM

podcast for long, you know that every couple of years I end up with some kind of an interesting

conversation either at an airport or on an airplane. And this time

around I met Alan from Ohio, which is the episode title, and I look forward to telling you about that.

It was an eventful couple of days in terms of airports and planes. So if you don't mind, I'll tell you

the front end of the story. And I met Alan as I was getting ready to return to Dallas. But on the front leg of the trip, it was a Sunday, a great Sunday. I was here in Lindale. I preached throughout the morning, had a good study with our young adults. I headed over to the Penn's house for our group meeting for lunch. It was just great. Got to spend a couple of quality hours with my

grandson Travis, and then I headed to Lovefield to take a southwest flight to Columbus, Ohio that was

supposed to leave around 830. Well, there's weather in Dallas just practically every day this time

of year, and by this time of year, I mean, it doesn't matter when you're listening. Probably true

today through Dallas. We get a lot of storms through here. So when I got there, they said they'll

be delayed an hour or two, but around 10.30, just before this nasty line of storms hit us,

we got the plane loaded, wheeled out, over on the runway, and pointing the nose straight downfield,

and then the stewardess says, we're having trouble with our cabin lights.

Now, none of us care about cabin lights. Just turn them off and get us out of here,

but apparently people care about that kind of stuff. So we went back to the terminal

so they could switch us

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