Getting to “There”
Posted on May 15, 2007
Filed Under Uncategorized, Trusting God, Goals, Fulfillment |
“We’re toast.” That’s all my husband could say as he looked in dismay at the departure screen notifying us that our flight was delayed . . . again. “What?” I asked, worried. “We’re going to miss our connecting flight.” Rushing toward the United customer service desk, we were stopped in our tracks by the long, winding, living, breathing, snaking line of other disgruntled travelers just like us. “Crap!” Paris suddenly seemed even further away.
We waited, and waited, in the slow moving line until we finally reached one of the customer service agents. We communicated our present predicament and she, grabbing our boarding passes, disappeared into a room not to reemerge for many, many more minutes as we waited, and waited – sitting, standing, sitting, and standing. Finally, she came back with new boarding passes, rerouted flight information and, for our troubles, $100 in flight certificates and two vouchers for lunch on them. “Great. Thanks.” We smiled and made our way to grab some lunch.
One three-hour flight to D.C. later, we find ourselves standing before four beautiful French-speaking women standing behind the Air France counter informing us that, yes, Marc Walters is on the flight, but that, no, Nicole Walters is not. “Crap!” We, racing against time in the sprawling and not nearly as well designed as DIA Washington/Dulles airport to go BACK to United and get to the bottom on this never ending fiasco. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
“Okay, so she’s on the flight now?” Marc asked angrily. “What about her luggage?” “Where is it?” Yada, yada, yada.
At last, I sit here, with boarding pass safely secured, waiting for the plane to board, with me on it! It’s amazing how many things have to go, well, “right” for plans to succeed. Any deviance and we’re left scrambling, disgruntled, and out of sorts . . . and can easily lose sight of the goal because of the distraction. So what that my sweetie and I have been running around airports for four hours longer than we anticipated, the Louvre awaits! Would it have been less stressful to have made our original flight at the scheduled time with no hiccups? Of course. But Paris is still there and soon, God willing, we will be too.
Be encouraged. Stay on your path – even if it deviates sometimes and leaves you missing your “connecting flight.” Keep your eyes on your final destination . . . you’ll get there. After all, God is a god of the destination and the detours, even the ones we don’t understand and may not even appreciate.
Psalm 73:24
You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny.
Peace and Blessings,
Nicole Walters
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That’s what God has been telling me a lot lately. Stay focussed. Stay focussed. I know I’m supposed to be looking at the Goal (destination) but the distractions seem like they are so heavy sometimes, it’s hard to move them out of the way. I guess these things aren’t supposed to really block the goal. I should see them as the blurred something-or-other as I gaze unflinched at my goal. Stay focussed….
Thanks for sharing Nicole. Can’t wait to hear about the rest of the trip.