Created for a Mission

As soon as I got home from Colorado in December, I began to look forward to my trip in January.  I looked over my itinerary to make sure everything was in order.  “Oh no!  I’m going through Chicago O’Hare in January,” I thought.  That’s the worst possible scenario if I want to arrive where I’m going and get there on time.  I immediately began to pray because on the last day of our program in December Chicago O’Hare cancelled at least 300 flights due to the weather.  It’s funny because when you pray, you never know how God will answer your prayer.  Typically, if there is a change in your schedule with the airlines, they send you an email notification.  I do not recall receiving an email but the night before leaving (January4th), the Lord prompted me to check the flight status.  So, I went to the United website, typed the date and flight number.  The message came back that flight number 630 in not scheduled for that day.  I got a little panic. “What, they cancelled my flight and didn’t tell me?”  This is more grievous than changing the flight time.  I decided to check my itinerary.  I had been rescheduled for three different flights on January 5^th.  None of them went through O’Hare.  I flew from NYC to Washington DC, to Denver then to Colorado Springs.  As of the first part of this post, I’m on the second flight and so far there have been no delays for weather, water or mechanical issues.  God does answer prayers, we just have to be prepared that it is not always going to be the way we expect.  Oh, and by the way, my first flight departed LaGuardia at 6:00am, one and a half hours earlier than my initial flight. 

Well, I was able to get on a earlier flight for my last flight so that I can get to Colorado Springs earlier.  As it turned out we got slightly delayed because they could not reconcile the passenger manifest tot eh number of passenger physically on the plane.  That’s a good one, right?  We I arrived earlier than scheduled so I am grateful for that.