Our flight was delayed
two and one half hours so we’re sitting at the airport terminal with a bunch of
Germans. One guy is really enjoying his music, actual CD’s, with his headset on
and one girl is curled up on a chair and sleeping. Married couples sit chatting
and one lady is looking at her computer tablet in spite of a large baby
sleeping on her chest.
I said goodbye to
everyone here in Florida over the past few weeks. It was an emotional
experience. Now we wait a flight into the night to an unknown land.
I look over to a guy
with a huge tattoo on his arm who looks exhausted and stares off into space.
What lies ahead for us? Will we be disappointed? Only time alone can tell. I
look at the huge Christmas tree that stands in the middle of the terminal and
sweat it out in my hot clothes. How cold will it be there? Will we find jobs? Will
we enjoy my grandchildren? They are all excited by our coming.
Little Robert
proclaimed he wanted to do something special with “Papa”. What that is, he
didn’t say. He just winked his eye and mysteriously replied: “Just wait.”
So I’m leaving the
state of Florida. A place where I’ve lived for 46 years to go away – 5000 miles
away…
The guy is still
listening to his music; the girl got up from her nap and walks restlessly away.
The couples look bored and Bob reads his Muscle car magazine. The guy with the
tattoo fell asleep. The lady with the baby stares in to space…
So I try to have a
attitude of faith; the only attitude that pleases God and look forward to
whatever He has for me in the future as I start this new beginning.
A new beginning in a
far away place: now I know how Abraham felt as God called him out of his
comfort zone to a new land; the promised land of Canaan.
The baby woke up and she’s
looking at me. Now, she looks away.
In Jesus Name, Love,
Laura
And the guy listening
to music just smiled and waved to me. And I waved back.
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