Flying back to Indonesia with our six week old daughter, I packed a ton of diapers and onesies. Jason thought it was excessive, and it was, but he wisely let it go. On our first leg from Chicago to L.A., Samantha had diarrhea eight times, the kind that seeped out of her diapers right onto her clothes. We washed her onesies out in the tiny airplane sink and started a rather redneck clothesline across the back of our seats. We looked at each other and decided to laugh instead of cry. The trip and her stomach got much better after that. Traveling with babies is about survival, and making it to the destination counts as success. Humbleness was something we got a lot of practice with overseas as we had to constantly adjust expectations, and I am still learning to let go of how I want things to go.

Ephesians 3:16-19 That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith – that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.