The Traveling Duo

These past couple of days have been so full of blessings. One of the biggest of these blessings I want to share with y'all.
I've been in Texas for about 5 1/2 months now, and though I have a lot of friends here, I still miss my friends from back home. I got word that some of the missionaries from my church would be passing through the El Paso area around this time, and I got quite excited to finally be able to see someone, anyone, from my 'former life'. Then the reality of my life hit. They would be arriving on a Wednesday at lunch time, and leaving before 8 am the next morning...and it just so happened that I would be working on that specific Wednesday and wouldn't get off until Thursday morning, after 8am. So my friends would be in my city, and I wouldn't even be able to see them; in my mind that was worse than if they had never come at all. I was disappointed.
But then God stepped in.
I was at work when I got the text from Mr. Unrau that they would be trying to stop by the clinic when they arrived. I knew they were arriving around noon, so I worked as hard as I could to finish my appointments before noon rolled around. And then, just before the clock struck 12, a new client walked in, and since I was the only one not in an appointment, I was sent to do her appointment, and initial appointments take 2-3 hours! Though I took the client without grumbling, inside I was thinking I had just lost my chance.
But again, God was working in the background.
Instead of arriving in El Paso at noon like they had been expecting to, the duo had taken a bit of the scenic route, and after doing some shopping, Mr. Unrau and Alexander arrived at the clinic at 4:45pm, just fifteen minutes before the end of my lunch break. Though in writing, 15 minutes seems like such a short amount of time, in the experience of those 15 minutes, it felt like so much longer. Being able to fellowship and to share and hear about the way God has been working in the middle of my work day was such a blessing, and then to be prayed over. Wow! What a blessing it was. What an outpouring of God's love!