At this moment, I’m about 8 hours away from leaving my home for 9 months, I’m barely packed, have about a million things to do, and still don’t know if I’ll get it all done. I am not ready. Let me unpack that sentence a bit. I’m ready to tell others about Christ; I’m ready to travel the world with 52 other AMAZING human beings; I’m ready to live through the hardest, most uncomfortable, most amazing, and I’m ready to live through the most wonderful months of my life, too. So, I guess you could say I am ready in a sense. I’m ready to live in the uncomfortableness of all this trip has for me. I’m ready to jump into new challenges and everything that God has for me. So, even though I feel like I’m forgetting about everything, my pack weighs 60 pounds (10 pounds over weight), or the fact that I’ll be up all night getting things done, I’ve never been more ready in my entire life. I guess this is what life is about. Abandoning comforts and the easiness of life for something greater. This is a shorter blog post because I have those million things to do before I leave tomorrow (IT’S TOMORROW, PEOPLE!). I just want to encourage you, many of the wonderful, difficult, and life changing things you will not be ready for. So jump into them and never look back.
