Let’s start with the good news – the issues of the conversions from Thursday were resolved before the depot started Friday’s laptops while keeping all relationships with Corporate IT in good standing. 🙂

Here is the bad news. My return flight was delayed 6 hours due to a ground stop for storms in Atlanta. “Ground stop” is getting to be too familiar a term for me in my travels. Let me back up.

I was running late to get to the airport and didn’t eat lunch. For those that know the Philly Airport, the security line was backed up past the moving sidewalks! It was the longest I have every seen. Once I got through security I had to pull an OJ (without the criminal implications) to get to the gate before they stopped boarding. Airtran flights to ATL are spaced 2 and 3 hours apart so I didn’t want to miss this flight. My gate was the furthest from the security point. I hadn’t ran like that in a long time. My heart and lungs told me so. I made the flight. We sat on the tarmac for 3 hours, returned to the gate and “deplaned” for 2 hours, then boarded again, waited for 1 hour at the gate and tarmac. We landed in ATL at 9:30.

To pass the time I talked with other passengers, one from Ohio, the other from Lebannon. I listened to the bluegrass and Christian rock stations on XM radio – an Airtran exclusive. At the gate I found an outlet and watched my Matt Redman DVD. Louie Giglio’s teaching on the DVD is quite humbling and paints a very large picture of who God is. The result is a proper attitude of smallness from the created in relationship to the Creator. I need to watch and listen again when I am not trying to hear announcements about my flight through the seams of my headphones.

I am grateful to God that I was able to be a calm, patience person in this situation through the grace He gives.

But we were safe with no storms then