Crew members of a JetBlue aircraft found a woman passenger unresponsive in a bathroom during a flight on August 1.  A flight attendant requested help on the intercom from any medical personnel that were on board the plane. Twin sisters responded to the call.

Nicole Kelly, a traveling nurse as well as a nurse at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, and her sister Lindsay Byrne, a firefighter and paramedic with the Wayland, MA, Fire Department, almost instinctively sprung into action.

Byrne noted that an attendant told the sisters “that the woman was unresponsive and she didn’t know what to do; she couldn’t feel a pulse, said she wasn’t breathing.”

Kelly reported, “When we had her out [of the bathroom], we heard a faint beeping — that’s when we noticed it was a blood sugar monitor.  So we knew it was her blood sugar and that it was a diabetic emergency.”

The twins began to think about how to get some sugar for the woman whose blood sugar was dangerously low.  “We got some sugar packets and put the sugar under her tongue until it helped her regain consciousness,” Kelly explained.

When the woman awoke, Kelly said “she was confused and too weak to sit up in the seat."  So the sisters stayed with her, never leaving her side for the rest of the flight.

As soon as the plane landed, there was a team of medical staff waiting to treat the ailing passenger.  Kelly and Byrne explained the situation to a responding paramedic.  The woman received the help that she needed.

Kelly was thankful that she and her sister could help.  “We were able to be in the right place at the right time.  We’re happy knowing we were able to do something with a positive outcome.” *

Whether we realize it or not, you and I are in a precarious situation.  We are “dead in our sins” (Ephesians 2:1-4) and without outside intervention, we are doomed.

But Jesus, the sinless Son of God, responded to God’s call to save us (John 3:16).  At the right place, at the right time, Jesus provided the help that we desperately needed.  The “right place” was on a cross outside Jerusalem.  The “right time” was when Jesus died on the cross for our sins, paying the price for our redemption with His own blood (Ephesians 1:7).

In order to receive the forgiveness of sins and the eternal life that Jesus made available through His atoning sacrifice, we must place our faith and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from our sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).

And if we’ll “stay close to Him” by seeking to live according to His will, He will never leave our side (Romans 8:35-39).  His blood will continue to cleanse us from sin as we continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7-9).  He will stay with us until we reach our heavenly home.

When we desperately needed help, Jesus responded to God’s call to save us.  Now, He longs for YOU to accept His salvation through your trusting obedience.

-- David A. Sargent

* Information gleaned from “Twin sisters help save woman with medical emergency on flight from Boston to Fort Myers, Florida” by Ashley Papa, www.foxnews.com.

David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

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