Unless you know that life is war, do you know what prayer is for?

Hey y'all.

I officially leave in One Week!!!

(For those of you who get my "prayer update" this might be a bit of a re-read. But slightly differant lol)

I was going to write an update, letting everyone know that I got $800.oo last week, which meant that I only needed a littel over a grand... And that news in and of itself was awesome enough for me...

But then I went to check with my church, and I was informed that with my 800, my funds are more than all covered!!! Ah! Sooo exciting!!!! One week away and God just pours on an abundance of blessing! Gah! I just can't even describe the beauty of Gods timing, how perfectly he's been working out every aspect of this trip, His insane provision and the way He's teaching me every day that I have to trust Him, and wait on Him. God Is GOOD. So very very good. Sometimes I simply do no have the words to articulate how my soul seems to sing with the astoundingly stupendabulousness of Him and the Joy that brings me. (Stupendabulousness = stupendous, and fabulous, but more awesome. Like? :P )

Anyways.

All that to say, I am one week away, and obviously there is a lot to do... But it's a real blessing that I'm not really stressing it at all. (Thanks to all of you who are praying for peace?! It's working!) I feel very calm about where I'm headed. A reasurance that comes from knowing I'm going to be where ever God wants me, doing exactly what He wants me to do, and when He wants me doing it.

One thing I am going to have to work through I'm sure, will be to not compare it to the last time I went, or any of my other missions trips for that matter. I don't want my pre-concieved ideas of how I think it should be to get in the way of what God could be trying to have me do, or teach me. I'd really like to be totally open to whatever it is He has in store for me... Willing to listen to His leading voice and guidence, and to have the boldness to follow through and act on whatever it is He's telling me to do. I'm so excited to be stepping into a clean slate so to speak. God can do WHATEVER he wants on this trip... It could very well be very similar to the last time I went. Or Completely different. And I'm down for either. It's an incredibly freeing feeling when you let go of the reigns and say " your will, not mine." I'm no longer in controle of what happens during this time... And that is SO okay... Because inevitably His plan is infinitely better than mine... And He'll be able to accomplish so much more through me if I'm just willing to step in line with what He's already got in the works.

How totally Stupendabulous [ ;) ] is that!



But anyways. I feel like i'm starting to babble a bit...

that's all I've got for now... I'll try to keep it as updated as possible... But like I said earlier.. I'm horrible at this... And honestly i'm not really sure how much internet access i'll have there.