Ok so we’re supposed to blog about our expectations, but it’s going to be hard since this is so insanely different than anything I’ve ever done in my entire life. But I’ll take a shot. Without further ado, here in no particular order are my expectations for WRJune2010
- I expect God doesn’t care a lot about my expectations. He’s going to use me in the best possible way He can even if I don’t understand it or even like it. Right now I tell myself I’m okay with that.
- I expect my highest high to be higher than I can even imagine right now because I expect to see God more often and more clearly than I do right now.
- I expect my lowest low to be lower than I can even imagine right now. I expect this to be due to the unbelievable suffering going on in the world that most of us will never ever come close to experiencing.
- McDonald’s is way down on my list of places I want to eat right now, but I expect that there will be at least once I’m very grateful to see one and eat some American food and drink a Coke/coke (sorry, we already have racer inside jokes).
- I expect to see real miracles like the ones we read about in the Bible. Ones where there is absolutely nothing or nobody you can credit it to except God.
- I expect to be completely blown away by God approximately one million times.
- I expect to come back home with tons of great stories to add to my already great story collection.
- I expect to fall in love with the kids we encounter and be inspired by their faith and happiness.
- I expect to be blown away by the beauty of God’s creation, and sadly I expect I can never do it justice through words or pictures.
- I expect my prayer habits to improve by about oh let’s say 4,000% because I expect to face times where there is absolutely nothing I can do but depend upon God.
- I expect that the fact I’m going on this trip will never seem 100% real until I go to sleep the first night in Ireland and realize I won’t see my home, family, friends or bed for approximately 8,000 hours.
- In college, it was a rare Wesley Foundation trip that I came back uninjured from. Seeing as those generally lasted 1 or 2 days I expect that I will hurt myself somewhere in the 11 months.
- I expect within 5 minutes of posting this I’ll think of 5 more really great expectations I should have put up here.
- Finally, I expect it won’t take me forever to make a simple blog post such as this one by the end of the trip because I’ll have a mastery of how to make things bold and different colors without everything going crazy and words disappearing to who knows where. Seriously, why did they evaporate when I tried to make them green?
- I hope to fall in love with God more each and every day and realize nothing matters except glorifying Him.
- I know God will be with me, working in me and through me the entire time always willing to provide joy on even the most difficult of days.
