Since last year, I’ve had numerous dreams about missing flights due to my horrible experience trying to get to a wedding in Maine. This included a missed flight, frantically rescheduling, traveling in the speed of light to another airport 2 hours away, this flight was delayed by mechanical issues and then weather prevented us from landing, only to touch down as my connecting flight was leaving and being stuck overnight in Detroit. It was not one of my better days.

My last dream was a little different. Where I was on time, but somehow I lost my passport. I had stopped to help a mother with her children, but when I looked into my purse, my passport and tickets were gone. Though I was in the terminal already; I could not go anywhere. The plane in clear sight, but I was not allowed to board. In the dream, I was absolutely flipping out.

The airport nightmares haven’t really struck me as significant until a concept rang something in my heart. I’m trying to leave, to get somewhere, I am at the place I need to be to go, but "something" or "someone" is holding me back. I’m not allowed to board or I can’t get to the plane before it closes its boarding doors.

The people are often faceless and oblivious to my panic. No one is aware of my problem. No one helps. I’m stranded. This describes so many blocked goals in my life.

My life has felt like this in so many ways: one life-long-tiring-uphill battle. I feel that way about business meetings at times. I’ve felt that way about my marriage in regards to walking my husband through this recovery process. I’ve tried to do everything that I can to be forgiving and respectful to my biological family and they seem to always hold up any progress we could make. I felt that way walking into Youth Ministry. I want to learn more about my employers business, but they don’t have time show me anything about estimating. You want to soar and watch this positive thing explode into euphoria. Yet current situations stop the dreams; people get in the way and complicate matters; there’s a lull or limbo period; or I’m just too tired to care after awhile.

I can react one of two ways. Give up or keep trying to board that plane. This may take some creativity to get on that plane. The success of boarding may not be the most direct or clean boarding. However, I know it can be done. In hindsight, there are other routes to my destination and it doesn’t have to be that one at that exact time.

Insight I’ve garnished:

1. Sometimes the hold up is more important than my boarding to my wanted destination.

2. God's timing is always best, don't panic.
3. If God wants something to happen, it will. No one or thing can ever stop His Word from accomplishing what "HE" set it out to do.
4. Delays (by our definition) are often divinely inspired.