I just felt like writing today. Just got that bug.
As for an India trip update, we still need two more people to join the team. Otherwise, any funds raised and so on would be reserved for the next opportunity to go, which would likely be this Fall. I was so focused on doing my part to raise funds and to be preparing for the trip, that I had to be reminded that we are still needing people to have a full group for the trip! SO, we are praying that the Lord would bring in the rest of the people He wants going on this August trip, and that He would meet all of their needs, whether physical or any other.
In all of this work to prepare for the trip, which has included researching culture, religions, obtaining a visa, getting immunizations and so on...I am starting to see that this is a part of something much larger that a single trip, taken by a few people.
I feel like I am almost watching a teaching movie, where God is showing how much He loves it when anyone wants to go to anyone else and show them love. I think He gets so excited not only when we say YES to going...(as in being sent out as the disciples were, or when Isaiah said in Isaiah 6, "Here I am. Send me!"), which is a huge step of faith alot of times; but He gets so excited when we are compelled to love.
As I've written before, different people are called and compelled to go different places and do different things...For me, for now, it is India. I think that when we step away from our human nature of wanting things to make sense, wanting there to be an explanation, I believe that is a favorite place of the Lord's to meet us and that that is where we get to see impossible things (for us) happen!
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding...
I believe, this is direction would lead us to the doorway of seeing miracles.
