actually, they aren’t that GREAT… but we have been asked to write a blog with our expectations. i’m trying not to expect much of anything, but there are a few i’ve entertained:
i expect to come home with some very interesting tan-lines.
i expect to be hungry sometimes, and to eat things i never thought i would.
i expect to gain a new family in my team and squad,
and i expect to disagree in all the ways a loving family does.
i expect to miss home and my family and friends so bad that it hurts.
(You can kiss your
family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same
time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach,
because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same
time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach,
because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
–
Frederick
Buechner, Telling the Truth)
Frederick
Buechner, Telling the Truth)
i expect to meet people who challenge me and amaze me.
i expect to be physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually exhausted and overwhelmed often,
but i expect to feel the love of my God and to constantly be reassured in my purpose there (wherever ‘there’ may be).
i expect to pray more than i ever have in my life.
i expect to return home a completely changed person.
i expect to see the face of God.
