PLANES..It's a Love/Hate Relationship Kinda Thing

After a very long journey I made it here, Durban, South Africa, safe and sound! After spending a lot of time in and with planes I felt like it would be necessary to tell you how I feel about them :)


I LOVE the exhilarating take off and landing.


I LOVE starring out the window for hours.


I HATE smelly foreigners sitting next to me.


I LOVE that I'm not obese because when I have a window seat I can still climb/slide around back in-between the plane wall to get to the "washroom" without disturbing anyone! Brilliant, yes :)


I LOVE opening letters on the plane from my amazing friends.


I HATE jet lag.


I HATE plane food.


I LOVE memorizing my journey on the map on the screen.


I LOVE observing other people's cultures and accents.


I HATE that U.S currency isn't near as pretty as a pound (London) or a Rant (South Africa).


I LOVE the sound of my ears popping.


I LOVE arriving to my final destination!


Lastly, I wanted to share with you something that I read while on the plane to Heathrow:London in a book given to me from my best friend called, "Through Painted Deserts" By Donald Miller


"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime to not venture out, wouldn't it?


It might be time for you to go. It might be time for you to change, to shine out.
I want to repeat one word for you: LEAVE.


And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back It is you who will have changed."


I can not even express to you what sort of peace came over me as I read that. I hope that encouraged you as well. My adventure has begun and I already have had life changing moments that I'll never forget. I can only imagine what's in store for me in the next 6 months! Thank you all for the prayers as I traveled!