Living the Dream!

Growing up in a small town and not much to see, books became my form of traveling in my pre-teens. In those page I could be whoever I wanted to be and I could travel to places that I wished I could go to without having to pay so much money that we didn’t have.  Many of the books I read had their settings based in the Queen’s land and a lot of the authors I loved were born on the English soil.  I loved to read and watch anything that was related to England. Seeing the Buckingham Palace, the House of Lords, the great wheel, Golden Jubilee Bridge and many of these exciting things on screen gave me a taste of my dreams, though I wished for more...to see it in real life!

So I grew up and as I was busy leaving home for the city, I started a huge fire across the street by a small bump site and I burned all that I didn’t need including my unrealistic dreams of ever stepping a foot in London! 

I am smiling to myself as I write this because God knew something beyond my greatest imagination. Though such hopes seemed so small and foolish, He saw it being worth the experience one day!

5 years later, my twin brother and I booked our flight to the States with the British Airways; we flew out of Namibia, through Johannes Burg and into London! We spent 4 hours in the airport but we didn’t see much. Hmm, a glimpse of  London, it was not quite what I hoped for…I wanted to see more. So on our way back I was finally able to live my long burned up dreams!

We had 11hours lay over and we decided that it was time to finally explore London!

And so we did. But while we were sitting in McDonald, we received an email that our flight got canceled! A delay that led to the best evening of my life in London!

Never have I imagined that I will ever spend a night in England. I jotted it down in my journal as God delayed to bless.  Something so small and not of much significance but yet He cared to bless us with such an amazing opportunity. I loved the people, their service and their accent. By God’s grace I was able to live my teen-hood dreams. Yet even with such an amazing opportunity, I came to the end of my day that night and as I looked back to the awesome experience I just had, I realized that; this too was just a fleeing pleasure not the ultimate joy, like I once use to think that it would be.