35W Bridge and Anxiety

I have to keep telling myself that the bridge that I've been on probably a thousand times is completely collapsed into the Mississippi... It seems totally unreal! Thank God I've finally gotten ahold of all of my close friends that live there, and they are all O.K. (Thanks for scaring me Leyla by not calling me back right away!!) :P I'm so thankful that some of the lanes were closed for construction, or this would have been an even bigger tragedy than it is. I'm still in shock over it, and I can't look at the images without crying and thanking the Lord that the people I know they are safe...

I was sitting in the doctor's office today (sinus infection, eew) and I started thinking about how in week and a half I will be living in Istanbul... It's entirely surreal right now, almost like the bridge collapsing: it's hard to believe unless you actually see it... and I'll be in Minneapolis for a day before I leave and I'll have to see that wreckage (and maybe then it will seem real). I have so much to do and so many things I have to get before I leave that I feel weighed down by anxiety about it all... (not to mention by a migrane and sinus infection) I'm really in need of some peace and faith right now.