“Is this Grenada Family Network, the Christian radio station?” said the pleasant sounding woman on the phone.

I had forgotten to answer the call correctly!

As we neared the first checkpoint, we were all uneasy. The taxi driver was visibly nervous, even more so after hitting a cat on the dark road. As we neared the armed guards with their automatic weapons, I did not know what was going to happen.

It’s the Devil!!! I watched quietly as the tractor drove toward the plane, with one lone patient jostling around on the crude wooden platform on the back. I was on a routine flight up to Kaikan Village, (or so I thought).

“Not now!!!” I said to myself as I heard the air gushing out of the tire. I knew immediately what had happened without having to look.