Day Five: Longest Day Ever!

Ever seen anyone crying in the airport? Yeah, yeah, goodbyes are so hard. I mean crying out of sheer exhaustion while the itinerary continues to add 3 hours to your already long 5 hour layover (just 40 minutes at a time). That was the end of day five of our vision trip.

3:30 AM- get up for 4:00 shuttle to the airport

6:30 AM- arrive in San Pedro Sula

7:00 AM- grab a monster baleada at Baleadas Express to fight that not-enough-sleep feeling

9:00 AM- Flight to Miami (+hour time change)

12:45 PM- Arrive in Miami expecting a five hour layover

5:00 PM- Anticipating boarding soon but see gate marquee change to Bermuda. 40 minute delay til our flight. I am disappointed as our firstborn is staying with friends and I know this is gonna make his pick-up even later than previously anticipated.

6:00 PM- another delay; baby gets fussy

6:40 PM-another delay; baby fighting rocking

7:20PM-another delay; baby clawing my chest and trying to gouge my eyes out; Mom crying

8:00PM- maybe going to board

8:30 PM- leave for Phoenix

11:00PM (4.5 hour flight -2 hour time change) arrive in Phoenix

At this point we had arranged to pick Jacob up at 6:00AM the next morning, seeing he had been told he would be at home in the morning. I have never yearned for my earthly home and complete family quite like I did that Friday. It made me think of longing for heaven and how Christ has prepared a place for his family to live all together. How He as a parent longs to be with his children and how that feeling of belonging in a family is only a small glimpse of how wonderful Heaven will be!

Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.