ENJOY THE JOURNEY

Chicago Midway is one of the nation's better airports. It's bright, airy, easy to navigate and even has some half-decent restaurants. Taking a flight with a change of planes here is far better than getting a direct flight out of Laguardia to DFW - it's always good to fly back into security-ridden McArthur.

So sitting here in Chicago, I have to admit this is a good place be - unless your plans for the day have you already approaching Islip at this time and you're stuck in the windy city because your flight was almost two hours late leaving Dallas, so you missed your connection!

And that is how our day is going. It will be a long wait here, following three and a half hours sitting doing nothing earlier today at DFW. Arriving at McArthur around 9.45pm will bring Sunday morning around really early!!!

So, what do you do? We've seen the screamers, shouters and complainers in plentiful supplies today. Their elevated blood pressure has threatened to raise that of airline employees at times, but has achieved no change in the situation. If planes are late, they're late. If yours left, it left. No amoung of ranting will change that. So what to do?

Enjoy the journey. I just enjoyed a great freshly made Italian sandwich (on wheat!), made a couple of phone calls and will now catch up with a few things courtesy of the internet.

It's the old thing about - when life throws you lemons, make lemonade.

If you're not enjoying the journey, you may well need to evaluate your approach to life. Jesus didn't come to make life hard, boring or miserable, he came to give us life that is the best it could ever be.

The world is full of miserable Christians, which could well be why so many churches are closing in the USA every year. Hurting people don't want to share people's misery, they want a bit of the abundant life Jesus was talking about in John's Gospel (forgive the King James English!).

So maybe Chicago Midway really is a good place to be!