Expectations of my trip

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

I expect that my heart will be broke over and over again for the people of this world. My heart will be stretched to love in ways that I am sure I never knew or that I never could fully comprehend before. I expect that I will be given the Lords heart for his people. Love is what matters. God is love. I fully expect that love will be the very center and motivation for this entire trip.

I expect to build family and community.   I expect God to mold us into a body. I expect that love will be tested and that days will be hard. I fully expect that at times I will want to scream. But I also expect that the friends I make, will carry with me through life,  and that God will give me a beautiful understanding of what it is to be the unified body of Christ. I expect to love and be loved. I expect there to be times where I will need grace and need to give grace.   I expect that I will laugh until I can’t breathe. I expect that I will cry until I can’t breathe.  

More importantly I expect the Lord to shine and that his Glory will fall. I expect him to rock foundations, stir up nations and radically move in his people. I expect to see miracles and witness great moments of profound truth and justice. But I also expect to be sometimes at a loss. I expect to see things that will challenge me and leave me only able to lean on the Lord and trust that he does have a plan.   I expect times where I am angry and confused about why things are how they are.   But I expect in these times that God’s mercy and love will overcome these moments and that I will learn what it means to truly have faith and believe that God is there. 

I expect that I will learn what it is to be truly grateful and to count my life everyday for the blessing that it is. I expect that my normal will radically shift and that after this amazing journey of ministry and of personal growth that I will never be the same, nor would I want to be. I believe that God will always at the end of the day receive the Glory and that I am so blessed and humbled to be a part of what he wants to do in this world.