Grateful For Others

“We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,[a] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.” — 2 Thessalonians 1:3

On a flight from Atlanta to Chicago in July 2004, nine U.S. soldiers — home from Iraq on a two-week leave — were among the passengers. Before one of the soldiers boarded, a passenger traded his first-class ticket for the…