Counting Down

34 Days and Counting. Darcy and I were talking today on the phone and how much stuff we still need to get. Friday we leave for our team meeting up in Washington. I'm excited to meet the rest of the team as well as learn more about where and what we will be doing. Darcy and I will also have the opportunity to pick up the things we still need to get, etc., while we are up there.

It's hard to believe it's almost here. This trip is so different than my trip last year. But it's also been a learning experience as well. This week several people came up to me and just learned that I was going on another trip and wished me well with some encouraging words. Other's brought in some OTC meds and reading glasses to take with me. I'm so grateful as I'm sure the people in Haiti we see will be as well. A friend of mine asked me if her church could add our team & I to their prayer list. To be honest I was almost relieved when she asked me that because I have been feeling like I have been prayerfully preparing and armoring up 'alone'.

I'm always told you need to do what God has called you to do Mel. Well first and foremost He's called us all to LOVE. Not to make money, not to play the drum, not to be the best, but just to LOVE. Love people. I love what I do. As a mother, as a wife, as a nurse and as a sister in Christ. To love others in the way He has loved me. And this includes missions. If I had a dollar for every act of kindness and love shown to me throughout my life, I'd be a rich person. I feel I am a wealthy woman because of it. They didn't have to, but they did anyway, and it was acts that have forever impacted my life. I will never be able to repay what all has been given to me, but I can pay it forward.

Ok, I'll stop babbling now. These are my thoughts for tonite. I guess what sparked this was a question I was asked last weekend by a dear friend. Why missions? This isn't the first time asked and I know not the last. But I know not a lot of people are supportive of me going to Haiti with the recent trouble that's been occuring with the food riots. I fully trust the organizations I'm traveling with, and would never jeopardize my role as a mother to my children and as a wife and have been prayerfully asking my Father if this is what I'm supposed to do. His response? "Well I don't see anyone else jumping up to do it, do you?? So who's going to help?"