It has been an emotional and stressful week for me.
Emotional. Saying goodbye to my students and school was difficult. While I'll get to see the students next year, I won't be going back to that school or wonderful staff. It is always hard leaving a place where you have grown immensely as a person and, in my case, a teacher.
Stressful. Not knowing the timing for teaching overseas, Kenya was the first and only trip planned for me this year. Well, God had other plans. Leaving and fund raising for two trips (one bigger than the other) in one year is kind of crazy. That realization was dumped upon me as I raced to complete documents, pack, write a letter, print things, and correspond with AIM during the course of a week.I have witnessed God's peace and strength in my life plenty of times, yet I still become a basket case when there is a long to-do list. One of my weaknesses - trying to control too much and stress about it.
2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
That being said, I am ready to leave on my 7 am flight tomorrow morn and trust Christ with what I've left at home. I will arrive in Houston to meet my team and then we will depart for a trip to Nairobi, Kenya June 2.
Words cannot express how thankful I am for friends and family like you. I am so undeserving to be this blessed! Please keep me and my team in your prayers as the adventure begins:
Traveling, team bonding, and for our only expectation be that God will work in our lives through Kenya.
I hope to write again sometime after we land in Nairobi.
Baraka.
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