🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

One week ago, I was boarding the last flight home from our two-month USA trip. I enlisted USA’s Transport Security Administration’s (TSA) support service for each flight because my autistic son struggled tremendously in transit. “TSA Cares” provides a Passenger Support Specialist to get you through security and to your gate.

Our last flight departed from “the world’s busiest airport”. I had been warned repeatedly that support was dependent on availability, and they were “very understaffed”. However, the night before we traveled from Atlanta to Cape Town, I received a text message from our Passenger Support Specialist. The next day, she called me twice and sent me her picture. She was waiting at our shuttle door when we arrived at the airport. My usually-shy 4-year old ran straight into her arms for a hug.

I quickly changed her title from “Passenger Support Specialist” to “Queen of Atlanta”. It seemed like every single one of the 60,000 airport employees greeted her by name. Her warmth radiated in a way that made a quick, passing greeting feel like Sunday lunch on the back porch. My kids were so enchanted with her kindness and the games she created, they didn’t feel how far, long or fast we walked. Transitions through crowds, trains, escalators and concourses went unnoticed. She led the way, and I fell behind the kids, calling, “Follow the queen!” We hugged and took pictures at our gate, like it was the most natural thing to do. When a good Father answers prayers with a person, it’s HIM too. His hands and feet. His kindness.

The Queen of Atlanta wasn’t an angel that disappeared when got to gate E10. She was a government employee who’d been under-appreciated and unpaid very recently. She is a person who took time to see people and meet them where they needed help, which is exactly what Jesus did for us and asks us to do for others.

Jesus is alive and accessible - through His Holy Spirit and the tangible kindness of others. Worship the God Who trusts You to bear His image!

Listen to We the Kingdom’s “Tabernacle”.