This year, the 1517 Fund is hosting their annual summit in the bay area, roughly 3 hours away from my house by car. The other summits have been in places like Toronto, Singapore, and other far away cities. You can bet I was excited to attend, because I don't have to fly.
All well and good, until I got sick two days before. I had small hope I'd get better in time to go, but I'm writing this the day before the summit is happening and that's definitely not happening.
Becoming Christian has given me a lot of peace with stuff like this. I can be happy knowing getting sick and missing the summit is part of God's plan, instead of just really bad luck.