I will be honest in that I have been putting off this blog entry. I think I have because I keep going back in forth in my mind on what I am going to experience on this trip. I know this trip will change my life in ways I can’t even begin to imagine. I recently went home to visit and all of the people that I told about my trip, gave the response that most people do when they hear “11 countries in 11 months” and when they hear “New Zealand and Australia” and that response is “Oh my gosh that is going to be the most fun vacation trip, I am so jealous”. Yes, this is going to be an amazing trip but I also realize that I am going to be so far out of my comfort zone 90 percent of this trip as well. So here are my expectations 🙂
1. I want to fully experience a life that is not me living a life of complacency. It is so easy here at home to become complacent with where I am at in my walk with the Lord, and it happens with out me even realizing it sometimes.
2. I expect to hear Gods voice so clearly that it is going to rock my world :), we are called to call upon the Lord and than wait patiently for his response. That is something I find hard to do when I have 50 million things around me distracting me here in the states.
3. I expect to have days when I cry a lot because I am being stretched so far from my comfort zone that I can’t take it
4. I expect to miss my family so so much especially my new niece or nephew ( I don’t know what it is yet) who is being born a month before we leave
5. I expect to experience God working in my life in ways that I can’t even begin to grasp right now
6. I expect to miss Mexican Food, Cereal every morning especially Honey bunches of Oat ha, T.V because I have a bad habit of having to watch it to fall asleep, okay lets me honest this list could go on and on I will sum it up as I will miss everything “American”
7. I just want my heart to be broken for the people of this world, I know we hear all the time that we are called to “love others” and I feel like this trip is truly going to give me a heart for the people that truly cries out for them.
8. I expect to see God work in peoples lives in HUGE HUGE HUGE ways
so those are are a few of my expectations 🙂
