Tickets

Today has been a memorable day. I kind of took what I consider to be the "last step" in this whole preparation process. I purchased my plane tickets. Every time I post, I say how much more real this whole thing is becoming, and the same holds true tonight. I don't think what I am doing is going to sink in until I actually board my flight in Houston, but this is just crazy. I not only know the days that I will get there, but I know exact times of day.

It was a big deal for me to finally purchase those plane tickets and to finally have a tangible view of this trip. When I purchased the tickets I was asked, "How do you feel?" My answer was, "A little bit of everything...excited, anxious, nervous, happy, curious..." But now, as I sit here writing this I feel only one thing, a sure sense from the Lord that this trip for the summer is undoubtedly from Him. I feel a beautiful peace about it. My safety will be much less, my comfort zone is going to be MILES from home, my support system will be gone, and yet I have never felt so much beautiful confidence in the Lord that I will be completely taken care of. He is with me, and is leading me to this place for a purpose. All I can do is trust His will and set my eyes towards Him in worship to the ultimate end of glorifying His name and living for HIS KINGDOM.

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the coastlands.

-Isaiah 42:10-12