{"id":1390,"date":"2025-03-08T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:43:40","slug":"the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"The Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I called the airlines to get tickets to Seattle for the big convention this weekend.&nbsp; Normally, I\u2019d just go on the app and reserve there, but I had a voucher for $600.00 that I wanted to use.&nbsp; The lady was nice, helped me through it all and reserved the tickets for me.<\/p><p>Fast forward to today.&nbsp; I went on my app to check in early and there was no reservation.&nbsp; I was sure I had seen the reservation last Friday after I got off the call but I had no trips, so on the phone I went.<\/p><p>The first woman I spoke with had no help for me.&nbsp; Without a voucher, she couldn\u2019t research what had happened so I went looking for the voucher.&nbsp; Then, as clear as day, I remembered I threw it out because the flight was confirmed.<\/p><p>As I pondered what to do, I remembered that I had 2 vouchers that I sent pictures of to my daughter so she could use one.&nbsp; I scrolled through my messages and found it.&nbsp; There was one number cut off the end of the voucher, but it was one in nine choices so I felt confident we could figure it out.<\/p><p>I called the airline back and got another nice woman.&nbsp; I went through the story with her and she tried to see what she could find.&nbsp; We went through every scenario.&nbsp; First she thought I might have been scammed.&nbsp; She couldn\u2019t find anything.&nbsp; Then, as she looked, she spotted something.&nbsp; As she dug deeper, she was able to find the voucher.&nbsp; After about an hour and a half, we found the problem and once again, got the tickets for tomorrow.&nbsp; I was so grateful that this lady took the time to figure it out.&nbsp;<\/p><p>If you know me by now, I\u2019m looking for the miracle in this story.\u00a0 Yes, it was amazing that I had taken pictures of the voucher to pass on to her.\u00a0 But what I really saw was something I didn&#8217;t expect.<\/p><p>Here I am, going through a frustrating situation, but I wasn\u2019t frustrated.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t mad.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t upset or discouraged.&nbsp; I KNEW that the Lord had this in His hands and things would work out the way they needed to.<\/p><p>So many times I think about all the things that I need to change about me.&nbsp; Things that don\u2019t quite measure up to the person I think I need to be.&nbsp; And yet\u2026..&nbsp; Here is God, changing me.<\/p><p>Friends, lean into your relationship with God.&nbsp; Give Him your attention.&nbsp; Focus on Him.&nbsp; Then, watch as he performs a miracle in YOU.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I called the airlines to get tickets to Seattle for the big convention this weekend.&nbsp; Normally, I\u2019d just go on the app and reserve there, but I had a voucher for $600.00 that I wanted to use.&nbsp; The lady was nice, helped me through it all and reserved the tickets for me. Fast forward to today.&nbsp; I went on my app to check in early and there was no reservation.&nbsp; I was sure I had seen the reservation last Friday after I got off the call but I had no trips, so on the phone I went. The first woman I spoke with had no help for me.&nbsp; Without a voucher, she couldn\u2019t research what had happened so I went looking for the voucher.&nbsp; Then, as clear as day, I remembered I threw it out because the flight was confirmed. As I pondered what to do, I remembered that I had 2 vouchers that I sent pictures of to my daughter so she could use one.&nbsp; I scrolled through my messages and found it.&nbsp; There was one number cut off the end of the voucher, but it was one in nine choices so I felt confident we could figure it out. I called the airline back and got another nice woman.&nbsp; I went through the story with her and she tried to see what she could find.&nbsp; We went through every scenario.&nbsp; First she thought I might have been scammed.&nbsp; She couldn\u2019t find anything.&nbsp; Then, as she looked, she spotted something.&nbsp; As she dug deeper, she was able to find the voucher.&nbsp; After about an hour and a half, we found the problem and once again, got the tickets for tomorrow.&nbsp; I was so grateful that this lady took the time to figure it out.&nbsp; If you know me by now, I\u2019m looking for the miracle in this story.\u00a0 Yes, it was amazing that I had taken pictures of the voucher to pass on to her.\u00a0 But what I really saw was something I didn&#8217;t expect. Here I am, going through a frustrating situation, but I wasn\u2019t frustrated.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t mad.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t upset or discouraged.&nbsp; I KNEW that the Lord had this in His hands and things would work out the way they needed to. So many times I think about all the things that I need to change about me.&nbsp; Things that don\u2019t quite measure up to the person I think I need to be.&nbsp; And yet\u2026..&nbsp; Here is God, changing me. Friends, lean into your relationship with God.&nbsp; Give Him your attention.&nbsp; Focus on Him.&nbsp; Then, watch as he performs a miracle in YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[43,58,44,42,40,41],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-blessings","tag-change","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}