Just Over The Horizon
Besides widening my literal horizons I also decided to expand my taste buds by retrying tomatoes…not my favorite food yet, but I enjoyed the taste of just one. Dinner came in white microwaveable trays with matching utensils to devour at 10:30pm. From what I hear this will soon become my normal dinner time and in that case I need to take my daily running more seriously. My initial thought before I cut into my pasta was “this is as close as I’ll probably ever get to astronaut food, so I better savor every bite!” Not long after the first bite did I reconsider the thought having similarly tasted a Lean Cuisine recently. Dinner was a nice interruption from my thoughts of departing home in such a dramatic fashion this evening. I’ve come to the conclusion that crying is induced in the presence of an airport. I was stressed all day about the trip and worrying about petty things that didn’t really matter. During my prayerful take-off God reminded me that He doesn’t call us to worry, or be anxious (Matthew 6:25-34). With reassurance from His presence I enjoyed dinner and turned my interest to the in-flight movie. They treated us to a showing of The Vow. I didn’t make it through the movie, and woke up to the smell of hot croissants rolling down the aisle. As the T.V. screen directed us in both English and Spanish on how to put on our seatbelts and that we were not long from landing I gazed out the window at the view of the sun rising over the Andes Mountains. We landed at the base of the mountain rage surrounded in morning fog. As helpful as the bilingual seatbelt instructions were they didn’t come in handy when I left the plane and was immediately immersed in a different language. I had a minor panic attack as I realized how unprepared I was for the language barrier. I am very good at charades so this should get better soon!
Our view of the Andes at sunrise! God paints beautifully for us
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