We landed in Fairbanks, Alaska this morning at 1:30 am and my suitcase didn’t make it onto my airplane. So we drove back to the airport about 1:00 pm after church was over this afternoon and still no suitcase. The young lady at the lost luggage desk said that my suitcase got on a plane to Orlando, Florida by mistake but they put it on a flight that would be in tonight at 8:30 pm. So we drove back to the airport this evening and it still wasn’t there and the young lady said my suitcase missed a connecting flight and it was someplace between Fairbanks and Orlando. I stood there while she made a dozen phone calls and finally located my suitcase and I listened while she got the person on the other end to promise that my bag would be in Fairbanks by 8:00!am tomorrow morning. She gave me her personal cell phone number to call before we made another trip back to the airport. Then she gave me 10,000 free air miles for all the hassle, so I am hoping that it doesn’t make it in the morning and I can get another 10,000 miles!

I work at memorizing Bible verses and reviewing the ones I have already memorized about 45 minutes every day. I am now working at memorizing the book of Colossians and I am currently on Collosians 3:12-13 which says, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.”

As I was working on those verses tonight I thought, wow! How appropriate those are to my life today. “Dear Lord, please help me to live these verses, thank You, Amen”