The airportâ??s senior chaplain has faith that prayer is essential to safe travels. The wooden cross that he grips as he says those prayers is his constant reminder of how that faith has been sorely tested.
Lanier carries the cross everywhere â?? wedged between his fingers as he paces the airport looking for travelers in need of pastoral guidance, passed from hand to hand as he chats with a seeker at the airport chapel, held tightly in his palm as he pulls up a photo on his iPhone. Thereâ??s the cross again, in the photo. Between the thin fingers of Lanierâ??s 10-year-old son Josiah, three weeks ago, as Josiah took his last breath.
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