“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” -Proverbs 3:5-6
So I'm sitting here sipping on my favorite coffee drink, aka Ice Fudge Ripple from Coffee Beanery, and am simply in awe of the Glorious wonders of our God. God's timing is perfect. God's grace is perfect. God's love is perfect. God is perfect. In the span of 15 minutes, God was able to show his wondrous power and showed that in all situations He is in control.
Now to start the story of how God was able to show his amazingggggggness (yes with the 7 Gs are intentional), we must go back several months.
Back in July, I began the process of finishing off my senior year with the start of a Kaplan LSAT course. During this time, I was able to take a break and spend some time studying and spending time with my family back home in the Dominican Republic. Our travel to the DR was probably the worst experience I ever had traveling, which say a lot considering I having been traveling for over 20 years. But that experience is a whole another story in itself, any who as of today God has completely redeemed my traveling experience.
Skip couple months and the school year begins. In my entire college career, I was not prepared to have the busiest semester of my life. Juggling 20 credits, the LSATs/Law School, and work; I truly never got a change to breathe and slow down. Fortunately, God provided and gave me the strength to thrive and not just survive. Also, he gave me something to look forward to when my parents agreed that we should all come back to the DR as a family to spend Christmas together and welcome in 2009 Choister style.
As my daddy was purchasing our tickets, he tried to do his best to make it as comfortable as possible but with the crazy ticket prices we got stuck with a itinerary of 4 stops (Detroit → Chicago → Atlanta → Miami → DR) to get to our final destination. Now with our previous DR experience, I was not looking forward to the crazy travel plans but I knew that this was no time to be extravagant. To add to this trip, we were finally traveling with Spooner. Traveling internationally with a dog was difficult enough but considering all the stops, we knew that it was going to be another notable experience.
Fast forward to December 18th, 2008. After sleeplessly studying for finals and finally packing through the night, we arrive to the airport with the help of lovely Miss. Macadangdang. We got here with sufficient amount of time to check in and get through gate, but oddly enough through some form of madness we got stuck in the special needs line that was apparently not moving. People standing in line before said they've been waiting for over 2 hours and barely managed to move couple of feet. Normally this is where the panic should kick in considering that we only have 1½ hours to get through this line and get on our flight. But for some odd reason, Anne and I were just at peace and were trusting that God will do what he must do to get us in. First thing we noticed is that couple of people who were waiting in line in front of us, stepped out and the line started to move. As we moved closer up, I tell Anne that I will start to freak out at 7:50am (since our flight was departing in 8:25am, I factored in just enough time to check in and run through security). Its 7:48am, we are next in line. I simply keep murmuring prayers to give me peace, to trust in his plan, and now that God is bigger than me. Its 7:51am, Anne asks “if I'm going to panic.” I simply and confidently answer “no.” Then an agent finally calls us up to the ticket counter at 7:53am. We tell her that we got Spooner and we have everything. She realizes that we need to go in 2 minutes and she is rushing herself to get us going. We're almost home free, she prints out all our tickets and just needs to take care of Spooner. She then just stops and tells me “I needed to make sure I do this right and back to square 1.” I simply look at her with a look of “okay, I trust that God will provide, sooo please help us get to DR” and simple reply “okay, thats fine with me, as long as Spooner gets through I am okay.” Now, this is where God is like “Esther, you have no idea how much greater my plan is for you and so just watch me do my thing.” The agent looks at me and says “oh, you know what we can just spend you directly through to Miami and then DR.” (Apparently, the reason the chaos for the special needs line was because the Miami flight got delayed and the people in front of us need to get switched to other flights opening up large amounts of space on this flight) Now you have to realize, my face is completely overjoyed. This is the ultimate jackpot for flying to DR. This would be the way we would have wanted to go but couldn't afforded to go. We ended up getting amazing seats and everything was perfect. All our bags we exactly 50lbs (which is the weight limit) and we got priority access because we had Spooner with us. At this point, I was filled with tears of complete awe and I wanted to just shout out loud and say “thank you GOD!” With this flight, we were given ample amount of time to go through security, get my favorite drink and just be amazed by God.
It is now that I reflect back on this semester that I realized that God had this all planned from the beginning. He is the greater provider and I know that no matter what next year holds, God's plan is way better than mine and I just need to trust in him.
Now to start the story of how God was able to show his amazingggggggness (yes with the 7 Gs are intentional), we must go back several months.
Back in July, I began the process of finishing off my senior year with the start of a Kaplan LSAT course. During this time, I was able to take a break and spend some time studying and spending time with my family back home in the Dominican Republic. Our travel to the DR was probably the worst experience I ever had traveling, which say a lot considering I having been traveling for over 20 years. But that experience is a whole another story in itself, any who as of today God has completely redeemed my traveling experience.
Skip couple months and the school year begins. In my entire college career, I was not prepared to have the busiest semester of my life. Juggling 20 credits, the LSATs/Law School, and work; I truly never got a change to breathe and slow down. Fortunately, God provided and gave me the strength to thrive and not just survive. Also, he gave me something to look forward to when my parents agreed that we should all come back to the DR as a family to spend Christmas together and welcome in 2009 Choister style.
As my daddy was purchasing our tickets, he tried to do his best to make it as comfortable as possible but with the crazy ticket prices we got stuck with a itinerary of 4 stops (Detroit → Chicago → Atlanta → Miami → DR) to get to our final destination. Now with our previous DR experience, I was not looking forward to the crazy travel plans but I knew that this was no time to be extravagant. To add to this trip, we were finally traveling with Spooner. Traveling internationally with a dog was difficult enough but considering all the stops, we knew that it was going to be another notable experience.
Fast forward to December 18th, 2008. After sleeplessly studying for finals and finally packing through the night, we arrive to the airport with the help of lovely Miss. Macadangdang. We got here with sufficient amount of time to check in and get through gate, but oddly enough through some form of madness we got stuck in the special needs line that was apparently not moving. People standing in line before said they've been waiting for over 2 hours and barely managed to move couple of feet. Normally this is where the panic should kick in considering that we only have 1½ hours to get through this line and get on our flight. But for some odd reason, Anne and I were just at peace and were trusting that God will do what he must do to get us in. First thing we noticed is that couple of people who were waiting in line in front of us, stepped out and the line started to move. As we moved closer up, I tell Anne that I will start to freak out at 7:50am (since our flight was departing in 8:25am, I factored in just enough time to check in and run through security). Its 7:48am, we are next in line. I simply keep murmuring prayers to give me peace, to trust in his plan, and now that God is bigger than me. Its 7:51am, Anne asks “if I'm going to panic.” I simply and confidently answer “no.” Then an agent finally calls us up to the ticket counter at 7:53am. We tell her that we got Spooner and we have everything. She realizes that we need to go in 2 minutes and she is rushing herself to get us going. We're almost home free, she prints out all our tickets and just needs to take care of Spooner. She then just stops and tells me “I needed to make sure I do this right and back to square 1.” I simply look at her with a look of “okay, I trust that God will provide, sooo please help us get to DR” and simple reply “okay, thats fine with me, as long as Spooner gets through I am okay.” Now, this is where God is like “Esther, you have no idea how much greater my plan is for you and so just watch me do my thing.” The agent looks at me and says “oh, you know what we can just spend you directly through to Miami and then DR.” (Apparently, the reason the chaos for the special needs line was because the Miami flight got delayed and the people in front of us need to get switched to other flights opening up large amounts of space on this flight) Now you have to realize, my face is completely overjoyed. This is the ultimate jackpot for flying to DR. This would be the way we would have wanted to go but couldn't afforded to go. We ended up getting amazing seats and everything was perfect. All our bags we exactly 50lbs (which is the weight limit) and we got priority access because we had Spooner with us. At this point, I was filled with tears of complete awe and I wanted to just shout out loud and say “thank you GOD!” With this flight, we were given ample amount of time to go through security, get my favorite drink and just be amazed by God.
It is now that I reflect back on this semester that I realized that God had this all planned from the beginning. He is the greater provider and I know that no matter what next year holds, God's plan is way better than mine and I just need to trust in him.
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oh I feel honored to be mentioned in this post :) And again, thanks so much for everything!!! It's so true how God really provides for us everything we need and more! More hanging out time this semester, please!
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