It is a fact of flight that all weather—good or bad—affects flying; therefore, all flying involves weather. In my early years of learning to fly planes (before I started flying for the airlines), my weather-flying experience was “fair-weather flying”: clear skies and no rain, snow, icing, or turbulence. As my career with the airline began, I also began to experience many different weather conditions while flying the plane, particularly because I flew in the US Northeast.
Executing many takeoffs and landings each day put me in various weather situations. It was great experience, and I couldn’t help but become a sharp “weather” pilot. I became aware of weather to fly in and wary of what weather conditions to avoid.
When flying in stormy weather, the pilot’s faith and trust are exercised—faith in his or her own training, experiences, and knowledge of procedures, along with trust in airplane systems (for example: weather radar, deicing and anti-icing systems, and powerful engines). The goal for the flight crew is to fly around or above the storms.
Just as weather-related storms come, so also storms (trials and difficult times) come into our lives.
When life’s storms come—and they will—how do we handle them? In whom or in what do we trust?
Thankfully, in the storms of life, we have God. He is always with us (Hebrews 13:5, KJV); He is all-powerful, and He is able to deliver us.
“Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they be quiet;
so he bringeth them unto their desired haven” (Psalm 107:28–30, KJV).
How grateful we can be that in life’s storms, “[His] mercy is great above the heavens, and [His] truth reaches to the clouds” (Psalm 108:4, NKJV).
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