Monday, September 19, 2011

All the Small Things


I am so thankful that God cares even about the small details of our lives.

I left Saturday morning on my 30-hour journey to Cambodia. Over the past few days, I had become anxious about that part of my trip in general. It was a long time to be on my own, and I currently had a middle seat on the 14.5-hour flight from Atlanta to Seoul. I get quite antsy and a sore lower back from sitting for so long and wanted to be able to get up and walk around without disturbing a seatmate. I had been praying for good company and/or and aisle seat if it was in God’s will for my travels.

God answered big time! When I checked in Saturday morning in Philly, I had been assigned an aisle seat instead of a middle seat for the long flight without even having to request it! Such a huge blessing!

I also had another surprise in store for me in Atlanta. I had a 3-hour layover in Atlanta, which I wasn’t looking forward to. Mainly just because of the anticipation of getting on the really long flight. My one goal for that time was to get a Chick-fil-a chicken biscuit before 10:30a (when they stop serving breakfast). I landed at 10a and headed straight to a directory to find out which terminal the Chick-fil-a was at. I knew there was one there…I just couldn’t remember where. I scoured the directory and couldn’t find a listing for Chick-fil-a. WHAT?!?! No Chick-fil-a!! In the airport of the city where Chick-fil-a was founded!! This was an outrage. I continue to scour the directory to make sure I wasn’t mistaken. Finally, I gave up and turned to the person standing next to me to say something about this travesty. The person standing next to me turned out to by my mom!! My mom, dad and sister had surprised me by staying a day later in Atlanta on their trip to visit my grandparents!! However, instead of saying, “Wow, I can’t believe you’re here!”, I said, “Is there not a Chick-fil-a here anymore!?!?” My dad assured me that there was and off we went to get the chicken biscuit. Even though my initial response to them wasn’t one of surprise and thanks, I was so thankful that they had taken time to see me off in Atlanta. It was very special to have them be able to pray over me in person right before I took off for Seoul.

The rest of my trip was long and thankfully uneventful. I had very nice seatmates to Seoul that I was able to chat with a bit. I didn’t sleep very much on that 14.5 hours, but on the next 5 hour flight to Phnom Penh, I had a whole 3 seats to myself so I stretched out and slept for 2 hours straight!!

Because I was landing in Cambodia at night, there wasn’t too much to see, but even so, I sat at the window all during the approach thanking the Lord for bringing me back and praying that he will use me in his ways during this 4 weeks.

God provided for me in so many small but important ways in this initial phase and I know that he will continue to do so!!

2 comments:

  1. I thought you would never stop looking at that directory. It was a blessing to be able to see you off in ATL. God is good!

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  2. What a great surprise to see your family before you left! Praying for you and love you lots :)

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