One Month..

Today marks the one month countdown till I leave. Just 31 days. I am so ready to be there.

Yesterday I recieved my trip itinerary:

Atlanta --> Houston = 2 hours & 14 minutes
Layover: 3 hours & 44 minutes
Houston--> Qatar= 14 hours & 35 minutes
Layover: 5 hours & 55 minutes
Qatar-->Nepal= 4 hours & 40 minutes

In total it will take me 2 days to get to Nepal. I will leave at 3:45pm on June 25th and arrive at 8:35am on June 27th. And for all of you who have never looked at a map to find Qatar like myself- it is near Saudi Arabia.

I get very antsy in an airplane. So that is a huge prayer request that God would just give me rest as we travel.

Thank you for taking part in this journey with me. I can not wait to see all God has in store for me and my team as we are there. Love you all.

Come & Listen..

Over the last three or four days I have struggled with my quiet times and making time for them. I feel as though it is no coincidence that these last four days I have been tired, impatient, easily tempted. I woke up this morning with this eagerness to feel and see Jesus. I have a chair in my room that I sit at every morning to read my bible. So, I sat in my chair and I journaled for about 2 pages. And though it was only 2 pages I feel like it was sitting down with a friend I havent seen in years to catch up. I couldnt stop smiling. I felt his grace and forgiveness over me like I have never felt before. I talked to him about my feelings, and in those moments I was writing He kept revealing to me that Satan so easily uses our feelings against us. He can take them so we dont "feel" God there, then it is easier to skip our quiet times, then we end up falling apart. The first place Jesus took me to was 1 Corinthians 13:12, "All I now know is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me completely." Being incomplete and not being able to live to the standards that are put on me sometimes has always deeply bothered me. Over these last four days I have felt very incomplete because as believers we are completed in Christ. This morning, it was like a sweet and gentle whisper from the Lord, " You are completed in me alone. This life is about me and for me. Delight yourself in me, all else will fall into place." Because when we delight ourselves in Jesus, His desires become our desires. 

I also read Psalm 66:16, "Come and listen, all you who fear God and I will tell you what He did for me." Which led me to the song, Come & Listen by David Crowder. I sat in my chair and just worshipped to this song. I started dwelling on all the things Jesus has done in me and for me since this adventure to Nepal started back in Decemeber. 

When I found the application with Tiny Hands for the vision team I talked to my mentor, Jenni, about it and we prayed about me filling it out and that God would just really lead me. Of course, I was lead to apply for a place on the team. Through this process I just prayed that if I was supposed to go I would get accepted and that support would come in and everythign would fall into place. A few weeks later I got an email from Sarah, our team leader, that I was accepted. As of May 9th, my support is all in. Not only that, but I was given money to take with me and help me buy some supplies I will need. Jesus provided ten times over what I asked. He also provided a friend, Anna. She was placed on the team as well and just happens to live in Macon. We have spent some time together and this friendship was incredible gift from the Lord. He knows what we need, and He knew I would need Anna to hold my hand when we walk away from our families on June 25th. He is good. He is so good. 

"Let me tell you what he has done for me, he has done for you, he has done for us..."