One week. I leave for launch one week from today and wow, I am feeling all the emotions. For so long, the countdown to launch has seemed so foreign and certainly like it would never actually come. But now, it’s here.
In the whirlwind of getting ready to leave, I keep hearing something along the lines of: “you leave so soon!!! are you feeling prepared?” and the safe answer is sort of. But then my anxious heart screams no.
Because truly how do you prepare yourself to leave the country for 11 months? To do ministry in 11 foreign places? To serve the most underserved people in the world? To abandon all the comfort and enter such unknown territory?
And then, I hear the Lord laugh a little bit and He says, “Be still my sweet daughter, calm your anxious heart and know that I am Lord” and suddenly, my own preparedness becomes much less important.
I don’t know that I’ll ever be fully prepared for the race, but the reality is that I don’t have to be. I can find rest in knowing that the Lord has prepared this for me.
We, as believers of Jesus Christ, have a calling on our lives that is sometimes so much greater than we’ll ever understand, and we are called to live out that purpose that He has prepared in advance for us to do. He has gone in advance of me to equip me with the skills and things I need and he will go alongside me.
But y’all, this is the point of it all. Abba has prepared the way for me, and for my team, and for my squad. We just have to say yes. Yes, to the calling. Yes, to the unknown. Yes, to the abandonment. We have to say yes first, and know that we will be carried through the rest.
It truly is hard to fight the need for material preparedness, because it is so easy to get caught up in the things that we think we need, but oh, how sweet it is and will continue to be to wholeheartedly rely on the One who has called me to this sweet adventure.
I am stoked. For this adventure. For the people we get to serve. For encounters with the One who created it all. For y’all, who have so graciously decided to join me on this journey. I am so stoked.
Much love,
Carly
