Well, we’re certainly on an adventure!

“When everything goes wrong, that’s when adventure starts.”-Yvon Chouinard

Well, we’re certainly on an adventure!

I get ready and get to church, and we gather around to pray. Doug announces that our initial flight out of DFW is cancelled. WHAT?! (head smack!) I knew this was a possibility (our connection was in Denver, and they’re currently receiving plenty of snow), but I didn’t think it would actually happen. There is good news, however, there is a later flight to Denver that we could possibly make.

We make our way to the airport, and it’s on from there. Everyone sets their luggage to the side, out of the way, and the adults make their way to the ticket counter...and, well, that was 4 hours ago.

Yes, we’re currently still sitting in DFW Airport. I would say “luckily,” but I know it’s not luck--it’s purely the hand of God at work...the agent we get is a BLESSING. She has been on the phone for FOUR hours trying as many different possibilities as she is able. Six people here, six people there, ten people over there--at this point, as long as there is an adult with each group, we are game for ANYTHING. Fly to Seattle, LA, Phoenix, wherever, we’re game. As long as we all end up in Anchorage! We’re still waiting, and our blessing of a ticket agent is doing her thing.

The kids, meanwhile, have been another blessing. I personally have a very hard time “going with the flow,” and being patient. This group of kids has been absolutely incredible so far. So parents of these kids--you’ve done well! They have done the elevator riding rounds, snack time, hackie-sack, played on iPhones (and recharging them all at once!) they’ve done it all. I’m telling you, these kids have displayed more patience than I have seen in a very long time, from anyone!

We also got to see Morgan, a college girl from our church, and sister to a girl in our Alaska group. She goes to school in Chicago, and is in Texas this week on a choir tour. She landed in the same terminal that we’ve been in all day, so it was super cute to see the look on her and Claudia’s faces when they saw each other!

At this point (and from the very beginning, really) it’s out of our hands, and in God’s. It is times like these that I see God at work the most. In giving patience, in giving a patient and caring airline agent, in being here at the exact terminal one of our college girls walks through and sees her sister who’s with us, these are the times God is most visible to me. He is reminding me that His plan, not ours, is perfect. Things will happen in His time, by His means, and not by ours.

I’ve been thankful for this team for a while. Today I am also thankful for one United Airlines ticket agent, and two men who drove us to the airport. Praise be to God, from whom all blessings flow.

-Meagan Brown