He's in Control of the Perfect Plan

To know that God is in control...

Yesterday, I would have told you I would be in Haiti tonight. I would have envisioned that world – changing moment when you step out of the airport into the poorest country in the western hemisphere, see the small handmade homes and feel the dirt cloud under your feet as you walk and realize “wow, I do have a lot to be thankful for...”

"Band photo" with Sarah and Steph Heron while waiting at the JFK airport

Now, I am currently left in a NY airport with half the group I started with. One half has already left for their hotel in New York, hopefully flying out to Haiti tomorrow morning. In the meantime, our half is pending here for a flight to Miami. We probably won't catch too many waves post arrival time of 10:30pm, but we're hoping to catch that “airline promised” flight out tomorrow morning, to Port-au Prince Haiti.

All due to...a little rain yesterday. One plane that didn't arrive in Montreal. Eighteen travellers now set back from the original plan of a smooth day trip to Haiti.

After six hours in the hometown airport, our airport friends were able to split us in two groups on separate flights which, thankfully, arrive only two hours apart in Haiti the next day.

(Okay, forget any surfing. The latest news is we're not getting to Miami until 1am).

At one point, there was a 50% chance we wouldn't even be
able to go to Haiti. This was a slight stressor...

We've sent up the prayers. We've used the 8$ food vouchers. We've played our group games and taken our silly pictures. We've people watched. We've joked and smiled and sang and gotten tired and a little more frustrated – stopped talking and started sitting. Stopped being amused at the woman with the hair died as a skunk. We're no longer are ripping around on the baggage carts. We're just ready for whatever God has next – And that's the cool thing. We don't know what God has planned. We don't know what he orchestrated when He wrote our trip itinerary.

We may have answered a call to Haiti. We've packed our bags. We're ready to go. We've taken the step...and God's thrown us a little adventure twist. Neat thing is...we can trust Him because we know from His word that His plan is best. He's the author of this story - of this mission. We're just characters off the pages. We can hope we will get to Haiti. We can hope everything will go as imagined, but we don't know what God has in store. His plan is PERFECT and His imagination beats anything that we could ever think of.

In the meantime, we just keep looking to Him, trusting His plan and following His lead. It's all in His hands. We're going by God's travel itinerary and in His appointed time, we will arrive at the destination He has for us.

Love from Laguardia NY,

Maranatha