Have you ever watched a rocket launch with NASA or played hide-and-go-seek in the backyard as a kid?
The countdown to launch is so exciting. The anticipation. The build-up. The gitters. The giggles. That’s exactly what my heart feels today.
As you know, I will be traveling with ‘The World Race,’ an eleven month missions trip to eleven different countries and our launch is in August. So yes, this February marked t-minus six months until take off.
I want to paint you a picture, an average day in the life of Diane. I live at home with both of my parents that love, support and spoil me. I get on my car to drive to my stable job. Every ‘need’ that I have could really be categorized as a luxury. I’ve never missed a meal due to lack of food. If I ever get too hot or cold, comfort is only a couple of clicks away on our thermostat. We can’t ever seem to have enough pillows or blankets on our already comfortable couch. Netflix and YouTube are a must on the daily schedule. Taking a shower can only mean warm water and into a warm bed for the night. Needless to say, comfort is a basic standard in my life.
But, nothing grows in comfort.
The reality of the proximity to leaving is hitting me hard lately and at the most random times. It was last week that as I got up to go to work from my bed and to use my personal bathroom, I suddenly thought, “I won’t have my own bathroom in six months.” Did I mention that I’m spoiled? After my brother moved out, I took over his room and I actually sleep in one bedroom and keep my clothes and belongings in another. As I stepped into the next bedroom and pulled out my neatly folded clothes from my drawers, again I thought, “in six months my clothes won’t be in drawers.” It hit me. The comfort I have grown so accustomed to and can willingly admit that I have taken for granted, will no longer be a part of my life. As odd as it may seem, everything about that excites me.
To think that my home will be in a bag pack. Everything that I will own will be carried on my back. Yet, anything that I could possibly need and want is found in Christ. To realize that He really will become the air that I breath. Christ is and will be my strong tower that I lean on in moments of distress. My Lord is the higher rock that I run to when doubts or fear creep in. In his word, he reminds us there is no where we could go that his love would not be there.
Psalm 139: 7-12
