My first travel day–
I wrote this last week. Sorry about the late upload!
Well.. It’s Thursday, 7:18am, in a little city in China that will remain nameless. I’ve been traveling since 3:30am on Tuesday morning. It might sound like an extraordinary bit of traveling, But for me, yesterday was Tuesday! However Wednesday vanished as we crossed the International Dateline. It’s a weird thing to experience, this losing a day issue, that being said, it still has been an quite a bit of traveling.
We arrived at the Atlanta airport at 4am, from there we left at 7am for Dallas, TX, then from Dallas we flew to, Los Angeles, where we had a 12 hour layover! Finally, after a long day of exploring the airport, playing E.R.S. till my hands hurt, eating In-n-Out burger, sleeping on the hard ground, we finally boarded our plane to China at 11:45pm Tuesday night. From there we had a 14 hour flight that landed us in this small airport in China, waiting for one final flight to our destination of Cambodia!
On a separate thought, it’s slowly beginning to sink in that this is really happening. I’ve spent the last year raising money, preparing and praying to leave for this journey, and now on September 11th of 2014 it’s actually happening. I’ve had a couple moments of asking if I’m ready for this and if I really knew what I was signing up for. It’s in those moments that I remember two things:
1. The beauty of The Race is that it’s quite impossible to know what your signing yourself up for until it happens. It’s all about how much you decide to press into this year of Jesus-centered servanthood. That truly determines what happens in this next year.
2. In regards to my first fear, the only thing I have to combat it with is this: God is all knowing, He knows every hardship I’ll encounter this next year, and if He did not believe I could overcome each and every one He would not have put this opportunity in my lap. I do live in a fallen world so there will be events this year that I won’t handle the correct way and I will fail to make glorifying choices. But I heard a quote a couple months ago: “God does not call the equipped, He equips the called.” I believe God has called me to this mission field, therefore I will walk forward in obedience and trust Him in Faith.
