Thursday, November 19

First leg is completed - onto Cambodia tonight

If anyone has cause to travel Asiana Airlines I highly recommend it. They were the most friendly and helpful people to 2 semi-clueless Americans!
We left our small cheering crowd at the Louisville airport at 7:10pm Wednesday, and arrived in Chicago only to sit and wait for the transit desk to open. One can't help but feel almost insignificant as you watch hundreds of different ethnicities swirl around you in a place like that. We were so looking forward to having a good "last meal" in America, but everything was closed once we got through security! So a snack it was.
We boarded a packed 747 at 1am, enjoyed numerous movies, 2 yummy meals - well I had one meal and slept through the other one - and conversation with our neighbor from NY, and almost 15 hours later arrived in a cold, foggy Korea.
Our friends that were to give us a tour of the city couldn't make it after all, so we're currently entertaining ourselves in the airport for the duration of the 11-hour layover. Suggestions? We've alreay exhausted the 'where do you think that traveler is from' game, and visited the closest McDonalds (I know, we're such Americans...).
So there's the narration of my journey and on a personal note... I'm feeling inadequate. Which in turn creates an awareness of how much His strength and not my own is the key to success, for this venture, but also life in general. The butterflies and nausea are gone, but the excitement remains. Some things we do in life are still hard even when we know that is the path laid out or planned for us - changing jobs, moving, quitting jobs, divorce, love. We will botch it up if we get our hands too far into the situation - 'man determines his path but the lord determines his steps'. Let a strength that is beyond yours guide your steps to do the hard things.

1 comment:

  1. You have a real gift here, not only the gift of a faith so strong you can go out and share it in another country, but you have expressed yourself in the blog sooo well. It's a joy and inspiration to read.

    Love you, Miss you!!
    Karla

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