It's coming!

41 days until I hop on a plane and leave for Africa.

All of this time, I have felt nothing but excitement for this new adventure that the Lord is bringing me on. I still am unbelievably excited, but reality is starting to set in a little bit. I'm thinking of leaving my family. Leaving my friends. Being done with college. Student teaching at a place where I don't know a single person in that country. Being immersed in another culture for four months. I didn't even think 4 months sounded like that long of a time before, but now it seems like a very long time. I'm sure once I'm there, it's going to fly by, but right now it seems like a long time to be without Dr. Pepper, without pizza, and without the people I love (not necessarily in that order!)

Sometimes, as I imagine saying goodbye to everyone and being alone in another country... I start to panic a little bit, thinking what am I doing?! But then I see the faces of the children, and a calmness comes over me, and I know. This is where I'm supposed to be. I know there will be challenging times up ahead. Periods of homesickness, sickness in general, and loneliness... but I'm excited to trust God in ways that I never have before. I know that His presence will be there with me through the good times and the bad.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." -2 Corinth. 12:9

Now I just need to read this when I'm going through those difficult times :)

A little more than a month. Wow.