As I was on my way to the airport for my 6am flight to Miami, my cell phone rang. It was ORBITZ informing me that my flight had been delayed until 10am. I was scheduled to do a presentation that afternoon at 4pm at the International Brotherhood of Magicians convention. I realized I should have left one day earlier to assure that I would be there but I didn’t want to leave that early with everything else we had to do in the office.
As I started to write this, I was sitting in the Lynchburg airport. Delta had graciously rescheduled my flight to US Airways to depart at 7:40am to Charlotte…where I would connect with an American flight into Miami scheduled to arrive at 1:48pm. I would still be in Miami in time to do the presentation, just a bit frazzled by the flight experience.
As it turns out, I arrived in Charlotte and they put me on an earlier US Air flight to Miami. I made it BUT my luggage didn’t. I waited almost 24 hours for it to arrive at the hotel and got the runaround from US Air…then it was finally “located” at an American Airlines terminal. After almost $150 in taxi fares to and from the airport/hotel, I picked up my luggage and had some clothes!!
It just goes to prove, once again, that nothing in our lives is as “sure†as we think or hope it is. Sunday morning, our pastor taught from the book of Joshua. His main point was that life is an adventure. All the uncertainties and difficulties we experience are just a part of living. But that is where faith comes in – trusting that there is a greater purpose found in the seemingly insignificant details of life. There are always lessons to be learned. Patience is a good one!