The countdown has begun! 2 WEEKS!

This is it People! Two weeks from today I will be heading to Mozambique for the summer! I can't believe it is finally here! I thought I would share with you something that I wrote in my journal today concerning the trip. This little passage might give you insight as of how to pray for me or just an idea of where my heart is and what I hope this trip will be about.

Here's what I wrote:

From my journal June 19th, 2007

I leave for Africa in exactly two weeks and I have no idea what I am doing. I feel numb and frustrated with my inability to prepare my heart for this trip, or perhaps my lack of dicipline to do so. I am trying hard to not have expectations for this trip, and I think that in doing this, I have become afriad to pray for what I hope my time in Africa will look like. I am afriad of being disapointed if the trip is not what I hope it will be; if it isn't what I have dreamt it would be.

God I give you this trip to Africa! I pray above all that you would be glorified by it and by my serivce. Prepare my heart Lord as I feel unable to do so. Give me a servants heart; allow me to do whatever is needed at the orphanage and in the community. God walk before me and make the path clear. I pray for safe travel and ask that miraculously all of the bags and the contents of the bags would get to the orpahange with me safely; help them to be over-looked. God I pray for companions on the planes and the ability to sleep on the long flights too. God I long to meet the people of Mozambique; to love on them, to spend time with them, and to learn their culture. I want to LIVE in mozambique.

This is my heart Lord...to experience all that you have for me there. I pray for times in a market, I ask for invitations to enter thier homes, I ask for devine conversations, and pray for relationships to be developed. Bless my relationship with Pieter, Rika, and the rest of the staff at the orphanage; that we would have a holy friendship. I pray for relationships to be built with the teams that will also be coming to work in the orphanage.

Above all Lord, make my heart soft to your voice, to your prompting, and to the needs of your people in Mozambique. Prepare my heart to learn whatever you have for me and grow me into more of the woman that you have created me to be. I pray that you would use my gifts to reach out to the community surrounding the orphanage in particular. Give me visions for the future; for my future involvement in Africa. My heart. life, dreams, and desires for this trip are yours Lord! I need you.