What are my expectations for this this trip? Well thanks for asking 🙂
At first glance I think I’ve romanticized this trip a little bit. Traveling all over the world, meeting new people, seeing different cultures, expecting other ways of living, sleeping in tents, and hanging out with a cool group of people (all while being clean – of course). It just sounds awesome.
And I do hope all those things happen.
But when I get past all the excitement on the surface. I think about how during this trip God will stretch me, break me down, and rebuild me. How I’ll give up belongings, comforts, and time – to meet up with a bunch of strangers, travel to 11 countries in 11 months spreading the word of God, being out of my comfort zone for 11 months, and having to live in real community. Then I start to realize this trip, while being a wonderful adventure, will be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
I do hope that this trip will challenge my faith, my opinions and beliefs. That I’m able to see the world through a new lens and focus on issues that really matter to God.
But even writing all that down still doesn’t capture all that this trip will be – I think it will be 100x better than anything I can image. That’s what is so amazing and paralyzing about this trip. At the root of it I guess I’m just praying that God show up and does some amazing things.
