Trip to Scotland Episode 2: Jet-lag part 1 (3/25/06)

The screen at the front of the plane has stopped running episodes of ‘King of Queens’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ now, in favor of showing the passengers the remaining distance to the Netherlands—an hour and four minutes. Coincidentally, that is about how much sleep I got on the seven-hour flight. The local time in Amsterdam is about 7:00 a.m. That was, by far the fastest night of my life. I’m not sure when I will sleep—maybe on the last leg of the flight from Amsterdam to Edinburgh. I certainly don’t want to fall asleep on the train from Edinburgh to St. Andrews. God knows where I might end up if that happened. Just watch. I’ll wake up in the middle of a field full of sheep. Wouldn’t that be a nice parable?

I’m definitely trusting in God to sustain me for the rest of the day. But I think coffee will be God’s chosen instrument of His faithfulness to me. Even now, I am cradling a cup of (very bad) airline coffee between my sleep-deprived fingers.

Uh, oh. That was the captain speaking…in surprisingly clear English. Time to shut down and stow my portable electronic devices. That is all for now.