Today is the day :) I have laughed all week at how many friends and family members have called and come to see me "one last time" before I leave tonight, and I've tried to be brave for all the goodbye hugs (but you don't make it easy, Emily! Julia!) and I have left today open for packing and final checklists. David is driving us all to the airport at 2:30 am Sunday and from there, I'll be in the Great Hands that hold me always.
They say the journey IS the destination, and as I look back at all the details that carried me like ocean waves to this shoreline, and this new land, I know it's true. Just getting ready has made me a better me, and hopefully a better Christ follower. I have had people wish me Good Luck, and tell me that they could never do what I'm doing. I think they must say that because they think I'm going to Rwanda because I'm some kind of do-gooder (on steroids), when quite honestly, if that were my motivation, I'd be running on fumes by now. I'm seeing that when I see what God is doing and just jump in, he jumps in with all the power, talent, and resources that I need. Whoever you are, you know it too- if you don't yet, then you are missing out on a lifestyle of faith that will blast all your good deeds to smithereens. Doing good is so wasted without love and hope and the power of God to stay when we are gone.
Oh magnify the Lord with me. Let us exhalt his name together. Psalm 34:3.
They say the journey IS the destination, and as I look back at all the details that carried me like ocean waves to this shoreline, and this new land, I know it's true. Just getting ready has made me a better me, and hopefully a better Christ follower. I have had people wish me Good Luck, and tell me that they could never do what I'm doing. I think they must say that because they think I'm going to Rwanda because I'm some kind of do-gooder (on steroids), when quite honestly, if that were my motivation, I'd be running on fumes by now. I'm seeing that when I see what God is doing and just jump in, he jumps in with all the power, talent, and resources that I need. Whoever you are, you know it too- if you don't yet, then you are missing out on a lifestyle of faith that will blast all your good deeds to smithereens. Doing good is so wasted without love and hope and the power of God to stay when we are gone.
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