We were asked to write a blog about how we felt before leaving on this mission trip. Here is what I’m expecting…
I am so ready to go! I wish I was leaving sooner but I’m not. So I have to wait and be patient and stay focused on support raising and getting myself in the right mind set for this trip. But lately I have had problems staying focused on preparing myself for the race. I’ve been so preoccupied with things here at home, church, work, and vacations that I have put The World Race aside and only work on stuff for the race when I feel like it. After 7 months of considering going on this race, I had finally signed up and got accepted and then boom, sit back and relax and wait for January to come around, right?… Not so much. The work has just begun and there is a lot of it. It’s only 5 months until I leave in January and I don’t feel anywhere near ready for this in any way.
I’ve become quite comfortable with everything here at home lately and therefor have lacked the same enthusiasm as I once had for the race, because when I become comfortable with something, I lose focus so easily. It’s really quite annoying and poses questions in my head about why I am really doing this, or if I really want this. Well, the answer is definitely yes, I do want to do this and I am doing this, because this is what God called me to do, and this is truly a deep passion of mine. Satan is really doing his best to distract me from this race because he knows if I go, my life and many others will be changed because of it, and he does not like that one bit.
I expect God to use me in so many ways and I am so excited to see what he will be doing with me! Satan doesn’t have a chance when God is in complete control. I hope that I can open my mind to see a bigger God and to experience a life he intended for me. Pray for our team, that we may not be distracted by our daily life activities. This becomes such a distraction and an excuse for use to not put our all into this race.
