What are the odds?

We've been planning the vacation since last summer. Fly to Orlando out of Chicago for Spring Break for a week of fun with our dear friends Kelly and Leisa, along with Mickey and Minnie!!

Here was the plan for yesterday...
Leave the house at some point in time yesterday afternoon... probably around 4:00
Get to the hotel in Chicago around 8:00
Get some deep dish pizza
Go to bed

Here's what actually happened...
Received a text from Julie saying her last patient cancelled and she would be home by 2:00
Julie arrived home at 1:50 and I still had not packed!
We left the house at 2:47 pm
We were twenty minutes away from the hotel and Faith says, "I have to go to the bathroom..."
We pull over for a bathroom break at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois
It's only the second largest mall in the United States of America!!
We walked all the way around the mall!!! It was a long bathroom break.
We started to get something to eat, but decided to wait.
Drove to the hotel
Checked in
Decided to go get something to eat
Bypassed one pizza joint
Saw another pizza joint but I missed the turn
Blew by another pizza place just because we could
Settled for a restaurant named Giordano's
Went in to the restaurant
Hostess seated us in a booth that was too small
After ordering we moved across the aisle to a bigger booth
And then...
And then...
I saw her...
Who was she?
Only my best friend in Klamath Falls' daughter Kristina whom we love and adore!!
I sneaked over to her table and said, "Um excuse me.."
Then it was simple pandemonium in the middle of the restaurant.
We jumped up and down, screamed, hugged, laughed, made introductions to her flight attendant friends with words like, "this is my former pastor!" and "No, we don't live in Chicago. We live in Iowa and we know Kristina from our time in Oregon!"
We took pictures on the iPhone and sent them to Kristina's mom and dad
And then we said, "Good-bye..."

My iWitness...

What are the odds of running into Kristina in a restaurant in Chicago on a Friday night?
I can't even begin to calculate!
Had we left 20 minutes later...
Had we eaten at the Mall
Had we eaten at one of the first three pizza joints
Had we decided to swim and order room service
Had we left on time
Had we not planned the vacation
Well... we would have missed Kristina.

Some will call this fate
Some will call this dumb luck
Some will call this chance
Some will even call it coincidence

Here's what I call it...

God's powerful, purposeful, providential, perfect and playful plan!

With that mindset and heartset...
I am simply amazed and in awe of the One who looks at our plans and simply "chuckles..."

"In their hearts humans plan their course,
     but the Lord establishes their steps." (Proverbs 16. 9)

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!