Unexpected Travels

Wow friends!  You won't believe what has happened thus far!  I'll start Friday morning at 2:00 AM.  I woke up and got ready to catch my flight leaving at 5:55 to Chicago O'Hare airport.  Things went pretty smoothly from OKC to Chicago.  Our next flight, leaving to Newark was to take off at 9:00 arriving at 12:55.  We waited awhile and they told us our plane was having mechanical issues...something with the rutter.  That seems pretty important so I was a little nervous.  It reminded me of the scene in friends when Rachel is going to Ross and Emily's wedding.  Phoebe tries to persuade Rachel to get off the plane by telling her something is wrong with the "left filangy." lol:) Soon after our flight was cancelled, everyone bolted to customer service to rebook another flight.  I managed to get a flight leaving at 5:20.  Andrea and Barbara would be flying out at 7:40.  So here we are at in the airport waiting for 7 hours.  We found out that there was an electrical fire in an air traffic control tower which left many flights delayed or cancelled.  There was even planes that got to NY but had to turn around and come back to Chicago.  All I could keep thinking was that so many things have gone wrong and it was just my luck that this would happen.  I seriously started to doubt if this was what God wanted me to do.  My 5:20 flight got delayed to 5:40, then 6:15, 6:30, and then I finally boarded at around 6:45.  I landed in Newark at 10:15 and decided to wait for Andrea and Barbara.  I went to claim my baggage but it had not reached there.  They told me it would be up to 3 hours before I could get it.  So I decided to have them send it to the residence I was staying in.  I could not contact the residence because it was after hours so I stayed at the hotel with my friends.  All I had was my carry-on so I had to wash my clothes in the sink and sleep in the robe provided by the hotel.  I woke up this morning at about 8:00.  My clothes were still sopping wet so I had to sit with a blow dryer for nearly 45 minutes to get them damp.  I headed out after getting ready to check in at St. Mary's.  It took me a little bit to figure out the subway.  From the moment I woke up in my bed in Oklahoma to sitting on my bed at the residence in NYC took me 32 hours!  It was a very exhausting day for me and it was hard to stay positive but God shared something with me earlier that morning from the devotional "Jesus Calling."


"I have prepared this day for you with the most tender concern and attention to detail.  Instead of approaching the day as a blank page that you need to fill up, try living it in a responsive mode: being on the lookout for all that I am doing.  This sounds easy, but it requires a deep level of trust, based on the knowledge that MY way is perfect."  


I know that I can get so frustrated when things don't go my way according to my plan.  But even though the day seemed absolutely dreadful to me, I have to trust God that He was paying extreme detail to every event that happened.  I believe that he protected me yesterday.  And all that other things that have gone wrong just may be His way to remind me that I can't control anything!  I can either fight him on that or let go.  I'm so happy I am here now and I am waiting for my friend Mariah so we can have lunch and walk the Brooklyn Bridge today!