When our daughter Kaelin scheduled her flights to China for a study abroad program with CU, we all told her it was worth the extra money to fly straight through from Denver to San Francisco rather than adding an extra leg to Los Angeles, but she is a poor college student and chose the cheapest fare. Sure enough, bad weather delayed her flight in Los Angeles, causing her to miss the flight to Shanghai.

Fortunately she wasn’t the only one; four other China-bound students from her tour were in the same predicament, stuck in San Francisco, hoping to make the next day’s flight to Shanghai. We tried to Priceline a hotel room for them but due to the volume of stranded travelers the closest hotel available was 27 miles away from the airport, a hefty taxi fare for college kids with limited funds. So they stayed in the airport all night.

Then Kaelin’s Celiac’s Disease acted up and she got sick. Miserable night, poor thing.

Early this morning on the phone she was in tears, telling me she was considering flying back home, canceling the trip and dropping the summer course (which, incidentally, is the equivalent of six credit hours). I knew that for her to make that drastic of a choice she was really not doing well. And I got mad.

Not at Kaelin, mind you, but at the enemy! You see, yesterday morning as I drove her to the airport, I prayed for her. That God would protect her, that she wouldn’t get sick, that she’d have His peace. You get the picture. So when she got sick I was really upset and couldn’t fully understand why God hadn’t answered my prayer, and I considered the possibility that Satan was hindering God’s answer somehow.

That’s when I enlisted my Prayer Sisters to pray. And pray they did! My cell phone chimed repeatedly with responses assuring their prayers for my sick, stranded, discouraged daughter.

I told Kaelin in a text, “Prayer Sisters are praying for you!”

“Thank you!!” she replied.

Less than three hours later Kaelin was feeling better, sending smiley faces with her texts, and boarding the plan on her way to China. I love it when my Prayer Sisters pray. 

My world traveling daughter Kaelin