It Pays to Have Faith!!

I've got it!! My passport has arrived. Funny story--my mom and I left at 5AM this morning for the Federal Building in West LA. Got in line at about 5:50 with about 50 people ahead of us (the office actually opened at 7AM). After waiting for about 2.5 hours in that line, we were sent to another line, and from there to a waiting room where we spent at least another hour. I got up to a window and was told that I should just go home and wait for it to arrive. If the guy hadn't been so nice, I think I would have hit him (just kidding...darn that bulletproof glass). So as we're leaving the building feeling a bit defeated and very tired, my dad calls to say that he went to my apartment and it was there on my welcome mat! Yeah!! My parents are honestly my heros! What would I have done without them? They made it possible for me to be in two places at once (actually 3--my dad also went to the post office to check on it). God is good. He was good yesterday in the midst of the discouragement and stress, just as He is today in my small victory, and just as He will continue to be forevermore. My circumstances don't change His immutable character--but it sure does try my faith! But He has spoken: I'M GOING TO ALBANIA, BABY!!