I wake up without the weight of stress on my chest.
I am not worried about the future, and moving on from the past.
I have my gear, I have my passport, I have my vaccinations.
One more thing, I am almost fully funded for my trip. I still need funds for the airplane trip out to Atlanta in September to leave for Haiti, and for the ticket home from LA when we come back from Peru. Otherwise, in this last week a flood of funding has come in from seemingly nowhere. I am so thankful and stoked on everyone who has supported this. This is, of course, if everyone donates as they said they would (which may not always work out, people have dropped in the past for unforeseeable circumstances, which I understand!).
I have a learned a lot in this season. On trusting the Lord, on not trusting my fleeting feelings, on practical application of loving, forgiving, being patient with, not holding others to my expectations. In the past I have often been consumed with knowledge of doctrine that I forget to focus on the simple truths, to love God and love others. To forgive, to be patient, to trust, to have hope, to be loving.
I am beginning to remember who I really am.
And more than believing in Him, I am remembering that God believes in me.
