Last week I went to SuperBowl XLV!!! Well...not exactly...I was in Dallas, which is where the SuperBowl was played, during the weekend of the SuperBowl, but I didn't actually go to the game- I was there to visit my lovely family :) but it sounds more fun for me to say that I went! (As a side note, I did meet Lynn Swann, the famed wide receiver of the Pittsburgh Steelers, I didn't know who he was but we'll discuss that in another post...I digress)
So- on my way to the SuperBowl :) I flew SWA with one stop in Kansas City. The previous week Dallas had experienced 70 degree weather during this early February time period. Only a few days later the city was paralyzed by inches of snow that came and would not leave. Schools were closed for a record 4 days, the highways were in horrible condition, and the airport, after an additional 6" of snow the night before I left, was closed. Had I known about the airport closure I likely would have canceled or postponed my trip in anticipation of the warmer weather to come. Instead, I boarded the plane in Baltimore and headed to Kansas City, ignorant of the fact that I was about to become very familiar with this mid-western airport.
I arrived in Kansas City and was greeted with a sea of Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers fans. We were penned in between the TSA security checkpoints and the gates that held our grounded planes. After 7 hours of reading, talking, web surfing and walking in circles, my patience was so thin that I could not grasp it and I FINALLY boarded the final leg of my flight.
Happy to be aboard, but anxious to be back on the ground, I settled in to my seat for the 45 minute flight. After the food service, I took to gazing out the window, one of my favorite during flight activities. Silently, I gasped to myself, in awe of the gorgeous sunset before me. Sunsets as witnessed from a 30,000 foot perspective are just breathtaking to me. The colors spill across the sky and the beauty of the sun's rays are endless! Some love the clouds, or the cars that look like ants, the city lights or the lumpy mountain plains- but for me what really does it are the sunsets and sunrises are the primary reasons that I love to gaze out of the plane windows. At that moment I realized that this was just for me. Had we flown earlier, we would have preceded the sunset, later and we would have missed it. If I didn't board at that time I would not have gotten the window seat on the west side of the plane with the beautiful view. It all seemed to be just right, and just for me.
Now, it may sound silly that the snow came, closed the airport, delayed all of those people and planes, just for me- but I believe that He did. I don't believe this because I am a narcissist who thinks the world revolves around her,but I believe this because the Jesus that is my personal Savior hung on a cross with nail pierced hands and feet, a crown of thorns on His head, and a spear in His side- just for me.
If He did that just for me, then rearranging a few flights is not unthinkable. And waiting for 7 hours, a couple of days or even a lifetime- for the perfect plan that God has for you is worth it.
