Summer 2015 Adventure Begins - Trust or Worry... you decide!

Au Sable Welcome!

The alarm sounds and the early morning light is peaking up over the trees in the field.  Finally the time to awake has arrived. The quite sound of feet can be heard throughout the house.  After a quick breakfast were were off to the airport 5:15.  Reflecting back on how God has orchestrated the plan for this summer I am reminded how He knows the desires of our hearts even more than we do and always has a plan that is much better than any I could construct!  For that I am quite thankful.

Approaching Philly

After a quick good-bye from Diane off I strolled into the Airport.  The first choice of the day came quite quickly... your flight to Chicago is canceled... hmm... what it is the best way to deal with this sort of set back?  The lady worked to see if there were any other options for getting me to Traverse City.  Not a surprise, there was one seat left on an US airline flight to Philly.  She figured there was just enough time for me to get to Philly, then to Detroit, and finally to Traverse City! A new confirmation number was given and off I went to the US airline kiosk to print some new boarding passes.

Lake Erie - approaching Detroit

The flight to Philly was uneventful and after a few minute walk to the next gate, the usually dreaded sign DELAYED flashed across the screen.  Once again a choice... trust... or worry... I chose trust.  The DELAY continued to increase in time and several people were getting nervous about the connecting flight to Traverse.  The very helpful attendant assured us there was a second flight later in the afternoon if we missed the first.  With this information I settled in with C.S Lewis and Screwtape Letters.  We left Philly and arrived in Detroit at 12:05, the Traverse flight was scheduled to leave at 12:01.  The two other travelers heading to Traverse asked if I would run ahead and see if we could catch the flight.  So off it was to the races, fortunately we were already at A3 and just had to get to A33.  The people were just starting to board!

In the end today was a lesson in the blessing of trust and not worrying about things that are really out of our control.  How many situations in life do we let drag us down and make us very unpleasant?