blessing
a beneficial thing for which one is grateful.
Have you ever lost your bags while traveling? If you have, I’m sure you know that it can be very easy to get mad at the flight for losing your bag, become frustrated, and it can sure stress you out because our minds automatically go to “What am I going to do without all my stuff?”
My squad and I recently experienced this while traveling from Atlanta, GA to Bucharest, Romania. Our original flight in Atlanta was delayed for around four hours which caused us to have to sprint through the Amsterdam airport to make our connecting flight to Romania. We made the flight, but in that process our bags were left in Amsterdam. Now normally this wouldn’t be a huge deal, but you have to remember all 29 of us are living out of two backpacks for the next 9 months, which meant all of our stuff (literally everything we have) was lost. This quickly turned into all of us sitting in the baggage claim area of the Bucharest airport for an extra three hours having to fill out claims to be able to get our bags back.
So what’s the blessing in all this?
After we finished all the claims and filled out the reports we then had to get on a bus to get to the train station because we still had a three hour train ride to get to our ministry house in Craiova. We were lucky enough to fit all 29 of us on the bus and let me tell you, that would have been impossible if we had all 29 of our 40 pound bags. When we arrived at the train station it became even more apparent how much of an issue we would have had if we all had our bags with us. Not only would people have had to stay back to watch bags while people grabbed food, but once on the train there would have literally been no room for us to move around. Our packs are basically the size of of us, so they are annoying enough to carry around in general, but I honestly don’t know what we would have done if we had our bags on the train.
Once we were finally in Craiova, the next day they hand delivered our bags to us at our ministry site. We didn’t even have to go pick them up from the airport.
Never thought I’d say this, but I’m so grateful that our packs got left in Amsterdam.
Blessing are not always a gift wrapped with a bow, sometimes they can even be disguised in frustration, stress, or anger. I challenge you to look for a gift in every situation even when it seems impossible.
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