It took hours and hours of phone calls. It cost expenses for brand new flight tickets to compensate for the late mailing of the passport from the embassy. It came with a lot of uncertainty due to a change of tracking number (not relayed by the embassy) and no ability to contact the embassy to follow up. But I am sitting at JFK airport awaiting the check-in time for my international flight and I do have my passport. I am so thankful for this!
I can say that I had more peace about all of this the last 24-36 hours (although it really looked just as uncertain as before) than I had earlier. I came to the realization that the timing which I think is important is not necessarily the timing God sees as important. And if God knows what is truly best (and I do believe that He does) He will make sure things work out. I need to be flexible. I need to be willing to put the time and extra phone calls and effort in. And most of all, I just need to learn not to be frustrated by frustrating circumstances :)
I should arrive in Kiev at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon, which is 9:00 AM EST. I will be running straight to a rehearsal so I won't have a chance to update immediately when I get in. But I will try to get something up as soon as possible.
Thank you for all your prayers.
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