Halfway There!

So I am currently hanging out in the London Heathrow Airport. Which means that I am almost halfway to Cape Town! Crazy!

I'm pretty sure that I just had the best flight ever (and I didn't even watch a single movie). After saying good-bye to my family in Calgary, I boarded the plane to London and settled into my seat. The man next to me asked where my final destination was, and I told him Cape Town, and that I was going to South Africa to do missions. He then revealed that he is also a missionary, and was headed to Ireland. Since the missions world seems to be very small, I asked him if he knew the Carlaws, two families that serve in Ireland that used to live in Bow Island several years ago. To my great surprise, it turns out that I was sitting next to Bryce Carlaw (I'll admit, I was slightly embarrassed that I hadn't recognized him...oh well). 

I don't know if he could tell that I was a little nervous about leaving, but he calmed my nerves and distracted me from my thoughts on leaving by the conversations that we had. I even managed to sleep for about half of the flight (which I wasn't sure I would be able to).

It was a miracle in the first place that I even had a seat on that plane. It is even more of a miracle that out of any of the 250 people I could have been sitting next to, it was Bryce. 

It's kind of interesting - I was originally scheduled to leave January 29, but due to some visa complications was delayed until yesterday/today (I'm not quite sure what day it is anymore...), and I was trying to find some reason for it. I don't know if this was the reason I was delayed, but I am so glad that I was in the seat I was in on the flight that I was on. 

Once again, God showed me that He is in control. He knew long ago which flights I would be on, and who I would be sitting next to. What can I say? God is amazing, and I can't help marveling at how He continually shows that He is taking care of me.