My name is Roshane and I am a flight attendant. It was a day in 2025 and I was scheduled to do a night flight. I’ve never liked night flying at all! You have this option with the airline that you can swap your flight with someone who wants it, but no one picked it up when I put in a request to do so.
There is another option we have, too; it’s called VFL – Voluntary Float Day. I tried that one next; it was not approved. My last resort was to call out sick, but normally, if you do that with the airline, it doesn’t matter if you’re ill or not, you will still get a point. However, if you FMLA it when you call out sick, there’s no penalty. I did not have that FMLA.
Every which way I tried to drop this flight, it just wasn’t working; it became clear that I had to do it; no way out. I didn’t want to; however, it ended up I had to.
So, I’m about to start my work for the night. First things first, I had to do my flight attendant selections, where you choose where on the plane you want to be stationed. I told my co-worker that I was meeting for the first time that I didn’t want to fly in the front because I didn’t like working in that section. She ignored and announced, “I am going to be in the front; stay with me.”
I am like, “I just know you, I don’t even know your name.” She rolled of her name and repeated, “You can fly with me in the front, no problem!”
TENSION IN THE AIR
We began working, but she had this strong tension around her; she was just tense. She was not saying anything. She was still smiling and everything, and acting like everything was alright, but you could feel this tension.
Half-way during the flight, I heard the LORD instructing, “Tell her that I love her.”
I said, “God, mi nuh know dis lady from no weh, eh nuh; she might tink seh mi mad!”
His voice was now ringing in my ears so much, I had to suddenly blurt out, “Don’t worry yourself. God loves you.” Apparently, this was shocking news. She started tearing up and asked me why I had said that.
I explained, “I was trying so hard not to work this flight, but it seems that somehow, somewhere, we had to meet today!”
She agreed that that was so true, and began relating how her baby father had recently physically assaulted her, but because she knows how the system is, she took the fault and said she was the abuser when the Police arrived. She got locked up for three days and she had just had a baby. She couldn’t breastfeed or anything and was feeling pain and agony.
I said to her, “Nuh worry yourself, God loves you.” Mi tell her seh God will never leave her or forsake her, and she start cry some more.
And as she is crying, there in a corner at the front of the plane, the LORD was revealing somethings to me about her, so I began repeating them aloud. I started to tell her some stuff that God alone would know. The lady began weeping. I had to console her. “Don’t worry, don’t worry. Everything is gonna be all right. For some strange reason, we had to meet today to work this flight.”
That was when she said “Yuh can’t leave me alone”, and I meant it when I said, “I’m not gonna leave you, man.”
People, from then I started praying with her, bring her to the Lord, and we pray back and forth, back and forth.
LEARN FI STAND FIRM INNA GIDEON
One day, her baby father a try tek weh de baby from her, and she started crying. Mi haffi almost shout at her, “Listen! fear is not of God! Yuh have fi stand firm inna Gideon. Every war come a yuh door, yuh stand up firm and ready fi open the door fi war! Mi tell har seh, “No worry! Mi seh God never carry you this far fi leave yuh!” Mi start pray wid har back and forth, back and forth.
Right now, she never spoke in tongues before but one night she dreamt she was doing so. She said it was like this bad aura came around her and she ended up speaking in tongues. Couple days ago, she said to me, “Roshane, why didn’t you tell me this was gonna be so hard?”
But I knew if I had told her that the Christian journey was sometimes very rough—turning the other cheek, learning to let go and let God fight your battles, forgiving when you are right, where would she be today? I had to be blunt and tell her that when Jesus came upon this earth, He had to go through many, many trials and tribulations and chastising. So, who are we not to go through a fraction of what He endured?
She understood right away and agreed that that was so true. I asked her, “Who are we not to go through a fraction of what God went through? A little tups we a feel of what He felt, so wi haffi endure it and keep pushing.”
You know where that flight attendant is today, people? Right now, you cannot test her! Right now, she’s still going through but she a hold on to wha mi tell har. She say every time somepn pop up, she remember when mi tell her seh fear is not of God. She seh every time somepn happen to her, she remember when mi did seh dat. She used to cry day in and day out. Mi tell har seh, “Yuh bawly, bawly too much. Mi seh stand up and screw up yuh face now. A time fi stand strong. You a God pickaney!”
Editor’s note:
Roshane is a Jamaican living overseas. He works with an airline and has been a child of God from his eyes were at his knees. One of his grandmothers is a faithful general in the Lord’s army. Leader of her church’s prayer ministry, she is also part of TBC/FCMI peaceful, purposeful, persistent, prayer protest. We met Roshane recently when he suddenly flew in to whisk his grandmother away for some well-needed rest.