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We were asked to write a blog about how we felt before leaving on this mission trip.  Here is what I’m expecting…..

One of my fellow World Racers set this blog up in a list format, which I am also going to do because its easier for me. 

What do I expect?  I don’t really know to be honest.  I can’t really begin to imagine what the experience is going to be like and what ways I am going to be affected.

 

I know that its going to be hard, intense, challenging- I’m afraid that I won’t be able to make it, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. 

I know that I will have to truly relay on God more then I have ever had to before. I know that the only way I will make it through is God and the community I am surrounded by. 

On a daily basis I expect to be stretched and molded by God. 

I expect that I will probably cry a few times during the trip.  I expect to laugh.  

I expect to see myself, the world, and God with new perspective, although I don’t even know really what that means or what the new perspective will look like. 

I expect that I will discover that I can do more then I thought, and I also expect to struggle.  alot. 

I expect that God will reveal himself to me in new ways and will help me realize more about myself. 

I expect to be moved and changed in ways that I can’t even begin to expect by what I see, experience, and those I meet.  

I expect to be amazed by God’s creation across the globe . 

I expect to see the universality of God’s love. 

I expect to experience suffering I have only heard and read about. 

I expect that I will be uncomfortable, which is something else I am a little nervous about.  I don’t like to be uncomfortable, I like to
be snug in my bed with a good book.  It will be interesting to see the adjustments I have to make!

I expect I will be tested in every possible way.  I expect to be broken. 

I expect that I will be different when I get back, how different and in what ways I don’t have any expectations for. 

I expect that returning home will be one of the most strangest experiences of my life. 

And I expect the unexpected!

 
And that is all I can think of at the moment.  Perhaps I will add some more expectations later on or with another blog.  Until then, peace out faithful readers!