today is the day.

well today is the day.  i will be on an airplane for the first time EVER in about eight hours.

i'll be praying a lot, haha.

actually i was thinking today– i've been reading this book about prayer.  i've been in portions that talk about praying like a child and i'm about to read a chapter about praying like God is your Father, what that means.  so thinking ahead i suppose i began to wonder what it would mean for me to talk to God like a father.  i thought, well what would i say to my earthly father if he were with me as i boarded the plane for the first time?

i would tell him i was nervous, probably with more transparency than i would tell a friend or many other people.  i would probably grab his arm as we took off haha.  and my earthly father would be fine with both of those things, because he would want me to feel comfort in an instance in which he saw that i was really nervous.  so i know that my Heavenly Father, being perfect, can want no less for me, and being all-powerful, He can actually give me a level of peace that my earthly father cannot.

so.  i'm going to be nervous.  but i'm going to pray like a child like i've never prayed like a child before, haha.  in eight hours.  on a plane.  about to take off.  into the air.

you know what's going to be kind of cool, too?  my dad (my earthly one) is going to be in california at the same time as addie and i will be.  so, even though we'll be getting there at different times and days, we'll still see each other and that just makes it feel more like it was supposed to happen to me.  so that's nice.