37 days and counting....

I am very Type A.  I like to be in control.  I like to plan.  I like to plan well in advance, especially when it comes to big life changes.  The last couple of months have been a test of my patience.  I knew that I was leaving for Haiti and I knew that I was leaving in April, but I've been waiting on a specific date and specific flight plans.  Being approximately 5 weeks away from my anticipated leave date you can imagine that I am starting to get very nervous.  I don't have a flight booked and prices are going up.  I'm praying about it, but not really letting it go fully.  This morning in church we were singing and at the exact moment we were singing "make way for the King, make way for His Kingdom, He will bring light, and burn out the darkness"  the sun came out brightly for the first time in several dreary days.  At that moment I realized that I wasn't fully giving all my stresses over to God, that I wasn't making way for the King.  I don't know why I sometimes think that I can handle these things on my own or that my timing is better than His, but He always has a way of showing up and showing me that His ways are most definitely better than my ways.  This afternoon I got an email with the specifics that I had been waiting on....praise the Lord!  Ticket prices have gone back down and I now have a flight!  I might have done a happy dance in my dining room and I'm pretty sure I won't stop smiling for the rest of the day :) 

Proverbs 3:5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.