Our Best Made Plans
"We Can Make Our Best Plans, but the Lord Guides Our Path" (Proverbs 16:9, NLT) We embarked on our 15-day cruise to Hawaii, which was scheduled to leave San Francisco on Monday, January 27 th and return on Tuesday, February 11 th . The ship’s route included ports of call in Hilo, Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui, followed by a quick stop in Ensenada, Mexico. Why Mexico? Well, apparently, the Jones Act, a federal law that regulates maritime commerce in the United States, required the ship to pass through international waters before returning to San Francisco. Everything was going along smoothly – until it wasn’t. Things happened. Someone on board became critically ill and needed to go to a hospital. The ship’s captain, JP, made the decision to turn the ship around so that the passenger could be disembarked and given medical care in Hawaii. Never mind that we had left Maui the day before and had already traveled 400 miles. He made a U-turn right there in the middle of t