• One who sleeps under a quilt

    18 febbraio 2020, Canada ⋅ ☀️ -24 °C

    It is a 4am start to a gruelling day of travel that lies ahead. Our first flight leaves Saskatoon at 8:45 am and stops in Calgary for a couple of hours, before heading to Toronto. Calgary to Toronto is a actually almost a 4 hour flight in and of itself. There we have another layover before we board for Israel. The actual flight from Toronto to Tel Aviv is 10.5 hours, an overnight en route flight. From all my hockey mom bus experience ( 15+ years) , I now have this incredible ability to sleep anywhere, even in the smallest of spaces. However, I am not sure how my Mom will fair.

    One of my weird idiosyncrasies is that I truly enjoy to eat supper on an airplane. Perhaps more than the taste, I just find it absolutely brilliant how compactly the meal is packaged and delivered. The whole process always helps time to appear to go faster and so I look forward to it as a unique form of airplane fun. Plus, when they hand out pillows and blankets at night time, it instantly helps my body to prepare to sleep. You might say I was designed for travel.

    It is an eight hour gain in time from Saskatchewan to Tel Aviv. I know it may sound strange but my heart is comforted knowing that Jada and I will again be sharing the same waking hours, for at least a few weeks, with me an hour ahead instead of 7 hours behind her. I am so proud of her courage and determination to be on a 3 month exchange program in Paris, France but I do miss her positive energy and joyful presence in our home. But I digress — so we arrive at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv at 12:50 pm tomorrow. I expect our adrenaline will be pumping and sustain us, as even our drive from the airport to the hotel promises us encounters with places and stories from the bible.

    We have now learned there are 14 of us on this Heart of the Story Israel tour. I am told the group has been as large as 25, so with only 14 it will be easier for us to navigate around and more personal in nature. There are 8 of us from Park Avenue Bible Church on the tour. We are grateful for the send off of prayers for protection and blessings at last Sunday’s service and for those of you who have committed to pray for us along the way.

    This is something I have begun to champion, that another way to spell love is P-R-A-Y!! I can clearly remember the revelation moment of this truth in my own heart. I was crawling into bed after a long, hard day preceded by a difficult season of my life. For the first time ever, I suddenly realized my heart was free from all my anger, guilt and shame. It had been a hard fought battle but that night, as I snuggled between the sheets, I heard the whisper of the Holy Spirit say sleep sweetly; as one who sleeps under a quilt of prayers is always comforted by God’ love. The greatest part about a prayer quilt is that it takes no room in a suitcase and follows its owner everywhere!

    [Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble. When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. ] Proverbs 3:23-24
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