Yesterday I traveled from Budapest to the US. I arrived at the Budapest airport bright and early for what I thought was a really good set of flight connections to the US. When I checked in, they told me that my flight to Frankfurt had been delayed and that it was going to mess up my whole trip. Therefore, I needed to go to the ticketing office and they would change all of my flights. Bummer!
I wandered over there bummed about losing my good connections and wondered how many times I was going to have to circle the globe to get to the US. While I was in line, Valerie called. I told her about the delay and then she said, “Are you not taking your laptop? because it is sitting here in the living room.” “AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!” I’m sure the whole Budapest airport could hear my cry. Valerie started packing up with the laptop (at 6:30am) to bring it to me (about a 45 minute drive). Soon after I learned that I was going out on a later flight and that she would have plenty of time to get it to me.
I didn’t connect the dots right away, but pretty soon I realized that if my flight had not been delayed, I wouldn’t have gotten my laptop. I have no idea how I would have made it on this trip without it. Therefore, the Lord allowed the delay to rescue me from the stupidity of forgetting my laptop. I guess that is why the Bible says to Praise the Lord in all things.
I arrived 4 hours later than I expected and I had one more connection than expected, but at least I had my laptop.