“We’ll get there when God wants us to be there.”
This was my humorous response to the events that transpired at the airport this morning.
As our team made our way to the Edelweiss airline kiosk to check in our bags, we were told our tickets was cancelled. Yes, cancelled.
Yes, we had checked in already.
Yes, we even have our tickets printed with seat numbers on it, but no, we can not board this plane.
You can imagine our wide-eyed responses. This has never happened before, even the white-hatted YYC airport host who roam the airport helping travellers, was utterly perplexed at our situation. We didn’t know who to blame (most likely the booking website), but we had no time to dwell on the culprit and quickly went to Air Canada as a solution offered by the check-in personnel. Our new flight itinerary was going to be two hours later with a completely new layover location: London.
At this point of the story, our team would like to apologize to all those who came to pray for us at the airport, as we know this situation has undoubtedly caused a much higher parking bill. We were planning to pray at 2, but by the time we were done, it was 3-3:30. Instead of huddling at the chapel, we spent a moment in a corner by the airline kiosk and prayed for peace and God’s hand in this unexpected situation.
Little did we know, this was indeed a blessing in disguise.
As it turned out, the flight we were supposed to go on was delayed by more than an hour. We would not have made the connecting flight from Zurich to Budapest. We would have landed 10 min after our next flight has left. And even though our seatings were spread out due to the last minute rebooking, Daniel C. made a last-minute request at the gate, and we were all sitting together again!
In the end, after 25 hours, we arrived safely at HOM. Looking back, we are thankful for God's intervention and interruptions into our plan. He knew what we needed, and He made sure we got to where we needed to go in the way He wants us to take. Now we look forward to many more in the coming two weeks!
Now about the weather.... [Very Hot]
