Update on Duffle Stuffing Passenger

Remember the obnoxious (in my humble opinion) passenger that argued with the flight attendant while trying to stuff an enormous duffle into the overhead I wrote about earlier?

Well, it gets worse. While we were waiting in SPS for the flight to Roatan, I struck up a conversation with another guy who was also on both flights. It is pretty confusing waiting for the small flights. Times change all the time, boarding is haphazard and usually requires at least two strolls out and back on the tarmac while they change their minds, change planes, change pilots, forget to load luggage, who knows. Whatever.

So a flight had just boarded through the gate we were to go through at the time they had originally said, but this other passenger was still seated inside the waiting room, so I thought conferring might be in order. OK. Not our flight, but we did keep chatting.

Apparently he chatted with this other guy while waiting in the customs line. I should have taken a photo of that, but thought a riot might break out, because the potential for that apart from photo opps seemed to be growing. An entire jet load of passengers and two agents, manually processing everyone, including taking a photo. And kids and wheelchairs kept merging from the left, which was fine, until other able bodied passengers thought they could do the same. They probably learned to drive in either New Jersey or Massachusetts, where that rude behavior happens all the time...

Anyway, get ready for this. Do you know why the guy was coming to Honduras? To serve on a medical mission team. I just cringed. Now granted, you don't necessarily need to love or believe in Jesus to serve on one of these gigs, but most of the time either or is part of the motivation. Or at least to others it is something that is representative of "church" work or "religion". I cringed again.

So this brash, rude and argumentative American was in Honduras sharing the love of Christ as part of a medical team. No wonder there are droves of people leaving the church stateside if this is what your average Christian acts like. So he was reading CS Lewis. So what? His actions were brash, rude and embarassing. Hope I don't sound too judgmental; that is always a risk when I observe and make an observation about irksome behavior.

The moral of this story? Let's also, or mostly, or even soley convey the love of Christ through our actions. Like St. Francis said, Share the Gospel always, use words if necessary.