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This is an excerpt from my blog back in july :

"and lastly, the plane ride home was uneventful until we got to the airport and couldn't land due to severe thunderstorms... the plane had a near miss with something on the runway that wasn't supposed to be there and it felt like we were going to crash! just reinforces my desire to never fly again... all in all it was a great week and i have only God to thank for it... He never left my side... He is my rock and my refuge... He is the One who puts the Spirit of forgiveness and compassion in my heart... He is the One who worked through those pilots to get us back on the ground in one piece... He is my everything and i love Him more than i will ever be able to express in a way that anyone who doesn't know Him could understand... praise God!"

This past thursday, I sat down to have a sandwich and turned the news on and the story was running about a near miss at the Hollywood/Ft Lauderdale airport and how they were going to change some warning equipment because of it. The story related a plane coming within 200 feet of crashing into another plane on the runway that was sent out to taxi by mistake. The weather was bad and the visibility was bad because of the weather. The people in the control tower heard the passengers on the plane scream! That was the plane I was on! I haven't thought about that near miss since it occurred.

At the time, I just started crying and so did my son, grabbing onto my hand for dear life and asking me over and over, "are we gonna crash?" In my mind, I cried out to the only One who matters, "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! I'm not ready to go!" I confess I had so much fear! And then the Lord spoke to me through the woman on my left who had been sleeping from the moment she got on the plane until now. The woman calmly said, "don't be afraid, if you have Jesus you have nothing to be afraid of. He will hold this plane up and not let it fall and if it falls, we will be in heaven."!!!! From that moment on, my fear was gone! So much so that just 6 weeks later, I walked onto a plane bound for a mission trip to Chicago with no ill effect from the previous flight! Praise God! And thank God for saving me from near misses everyday of my life!!!