Over the past few weeks i have been ordering gear online, asn as it is coming in the mail it is really starting to sink in that I am actually going on The World Race. I was expecting as my launch date grew closer that I was going to start to grow sad because i would be leaving behind most of what I know and what I am comfortable with, but that hasn't happened, at least not yet. I have just been growing more excited about this trip and the way that God is going to work in my life. And somehow I am excited for leaving my nice comfy bed and sleeping on a pad that is about a fifth of the size and only keeps me off of the ground by a couple inches. I am excited that I will not have a large selection of clothes, it will make it easier to chose and i won't care as much about how i look, not that i do a whole lot any ways. But one of the main things i am excited about is the new food that I will have the oppurtunity to try. I am sure that i won't like some of it, and that i will have doubts about eating other things, but in the long run I am really looking forward to broadening my horizons so to say. I am also excited for bonding with other followers of Christ along my journey. But the main thing that i am excited about is the kids. I am really looking forward to making an impression on these kids and them making on on me. I expect that i will cry when i leave them and that my heart will break for them and their situations. I will also have the time of my life playing with them and their simple toys that they find such enjoyment out of. So as my launch date approaches and my excitement is growing and everything starts to sink in, I am relying on the Lord to calm my heart and allow my to be paitent till I am able to go to His work.
