God is Good!

Arise at 4:00 AM with the excitement of the “it’s-finally-here” day. Blessings on Diane Roth who rose at the crack of dawn to take two of us and team luggage to SFO by 6:30. Check in, settle in at the gate, then the “mechanical problem with the plane” announcement. Delay, delay, delay. Twelve hours and much patient rescheduling of missed connecting flights later, we fly to Chicago. Sound annoying? Actually, after fairly frantic prep days prior to our trip, the forced sitting with a wonderfully patient Goma team was quite relaxing. A gift of a day of rest. Our stay at the Raddison Hotel in Chicago was paid for by American Airlines. 2:00 AM pancakes with Mary Ellen at the 24hr. IHop hit the spot. Now we await our flight to Brussels where we’ll be put up at a hotel there again, with a full day to tour Brussels. While we waited in San Francisco, hour by hour given “one more hour” promises by American, it felt perfectly natural for all of us to just give our plans up and trust His plans to be superior to ours. And man, were they!! We’re relaxed, enjoying one another, and mostly looking forward to serving with our beloved friends at HEAL Africa. God is good, all the time.

-Charlotte Martinez