Business, God and promises

When I married Scott I made a vow to love him, honor him, be with him in good times and bad, to support him. I've been thinking about "how if I really meant it" then why am I not flying with Scott? When I was baptized I promised to mourn with those who mourn, comfort those who stand in need of comfort, to bear one another burdens. Well I'm sure Gods wants me to be especially kind to my husband. He asks that I place Scott first in my life. God also wants me to have Joy in this life (Men are that they might have joy, 2 Ne. 2: 25). SO it makes sense that if I make Scott my priority I will have Joy. Right... if we follow what God asks us to do we will find Joy. Everything he asks us can lead to Joy.

Well Scott LOVES to fly. Scott LOVES to travel. If he could do our life over he says the only thing he would change is us being in a travel type business. Scott has been very sad about my choice of not flying. Espicially since we used to fly 3 or 4 times every month. I sued to fly all the time. Scott asks very little of me. He is an amazing man. He is humble and loyal and always serving me. I often wonder what I bring to his life. He loves me and never says I don't give back to him but I wonder if I could do better to lift his burdens and lighten his loads. One of the ways I can do this is flying. I also believe God never gives us what we can't handle. I believe we were sent here to earth by a loving father who trained us for success. Our mission was to gain experience by testing. For how do you know if you have faith without having it tested. Pilots are tested on everything going wrong with the plane, before they are given a licence to fly. God knows what choices I will make, He is allowing me to see what choices I will make so I can gain confidence to take with me into the next life. We had an excellent lesson on this last Sunday. You can read the lesson here... Chapter 2: Tragedy or Destiny?“, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball, (2006), 11–21

Towards the end of Feb. I am flying with him on a business trip to Chicago. Then our friend Mary G. will pick us up and take us to WI. She and her hubby Mark live just over the border. We leave on a Thursday and come back on a Tuesday. They are wonderful people and I love to be with them I just wish it didn't require flying. But how do I know that this thorn in my side has not been given to help me grow? To increase my faith? To help me feel Gods love for me?

Marlene found this quote for me... Airplane travel is now the safest form of transportation ever devised. In 1998, for example, there were 14 million commercial airline flights carrying 615 million passengers. There were zero crashes and zero fatalities. In 1999 and 2000 there were less than five in each year. According to the research organization STATS, "your odds of dying in a plane crash and based on flying 100,000 miles a year on large commercial jets, are about 1 in 500,000." STATS also finds that if you fly just 2,000 miles a year, your odds of dying in a plane crash are roughly equivalent to your odds of being hit on the head by a plane falling on you.