My husband and I arrived home this afternoon after a four week road trip across the beautiful USA. It was an absolutely amazing experience to see this great country. Yes it is the land of the free and the home of the brave and the freedom, opportunity, and luxury that is at our fingertips is immeasurable. We spent our days crossing state borders, hiking national parks, refilling our cooler at local supermarkets, swiping the AMEX at gas stations ($5.55/gal), and pitching a tent wherever our hearts desired. While it is so easy to take our daily lives for granted, there wasn’t a day that went by where we were not so thankful for the abundant blessings and opportunities we encountered. We were proud and very grateful to be Americans.
Tonight, I rushed to make the final meeting about our journey to Africa and was hit clear in the face that it is nothing like our world. They have nothing. They want for little. Their hearts are pure. Their life is simplistic, their community strong. And the need for our service is so great. As Drew talked more about our comfort zone, my pulse started to race with excitement as my heart was filled with the chance to touch and change lives. Yet in my mind, I know that our friends in Africa will change my life more than I can imagine. I looked at all the anxious faces in the room. Not anxious with expectations but with the desire to learn, grow, and serve. This was awesome. While the packing may seem tedious, the travel tiring, and the work ahead daunting, none of us really know what to expect, nor what wonderful things our sovereign God has in store. But every one of us has a gift to give and all are up for the challenge. See you in six days.
Rachael
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May you all travel with the Lord's blessing. May He carry you into this foreign land surrounded, protected and guarded by His angels. May He bind Satan from your hearts, minds and presence. May you only hear the voice of the Lord our God who made heaven and earth and who is Father of our savior Jesus Christ echoing in your ears. May He use this experience to remove the locusts from your eyes so that you may see the world as He desires you to see it. I pray His will be done in the lives of each person you encounter, and also in your lives. As you seek to honor, praise and glorify Him through your service to an unknown place filled with unknown people, may you be reminded of your many blessings, and the greatest blessing of all. Yes you are blessed with all of the many "things" you have, but if those things were all gone, and you had nothing, still you would have everything. Just as you will see that the Africians you encounter that know the love of God also have nothing, yet they have everything. Christ Jesus is EVERYTHING. Know Him, love Him, accept Him; through this you know happiness, peace, goodness and real true love, for without Him, it does not matter what or how much you have, it is NOTHING without the love of Christ in your heart. Safe travels.
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