Flying

February 6-?

To quote Adrian Plass about the flight to Australia: “All there ever has been and ever will be is this plane”. 15 hours on a plane in the middle of the night is quite something. We flew directly from Vancouver to Brisbane and attempted to sleep on a bumpy dark plane. The kids did great (they could watch whatever kids movie they wanted). A God moment happened in the Winnipeg airport, we were able to say hello and good bye to Colin Rivard who was on his way to a job up north, but even better than seeing Colin (as great as that is) was connecting with a young girl who was also travelling to Brisbane. Our kids, full of excitement couldn’t help but tell everyone around us that we were going to Australia, and this immediately caught this gal’s attention. Turns out she was on her way to YWAM near Brisbane--here we were about to head in the same direction to visit some of the people who would be leading her. I couldn’t help remembering how I felt 24 years ago when I first travelled to Australia to study with YWAM, scared, hungry, lonely and excited...it was a delight to travel with her all the way to Brisbane.