This morning I had the scare of my life. Lasted short enough to allow my heart to start beating again.<\/p>\n

At 5:45am I was awoken by the alarm. I know, people who know me would probably think that\u00c2\u00a0this<\/strong> was the scare. In a way it was, but it got worse.<\/p>\n

The reason we were this early was that my wife had to catch a Delta commuter flight to Atlanta (and then on to San Antonio, Texas),\u00c2\u00a0so I had to drop her off at the airport here in Melbourne, Florida.<\/p>\n

When I got home I went\u00c2\u00a0straight<\/strong> back to bed.<\/p>\n

Then when I got up at a more reasonable time (okay… it was after noon) I checked my email, and the first thing I read was a ‘breaking news’ messages from CNN, a service I subscribed to.<\/p>\n

And I started reading: “All 50 people aboard a Delta commuter flight are presumed dead after the plane crashed ….”<\/p>\n

This is where my heart skipped a few beats, in fact, it felt as if it stopped for 30 minutes…<\/p>\n

I felt an enormous sense of relief when I learned it wasn’t flight 638 to Atlanta, but then I felt horrible for feeling this relief in the context of 49 people dying in a plane crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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