ready or not.

Today is the big day. The day I have been thinking about and planning for, for almost four months. Today I will get on a plane and leave the country and I will not be back in the states until December. At times I thought this day would never come, but it is crazy how fast it seems to have appeared. I have asked all the questions I can think of, I have packed my bags, and I have my passport is all laid out ready to go. The preparation on my end is done and now I get to sit back and walk confidently in the fact that the Lord has gone before me and He is going to go with me.

Going into mission trips I try not to create to many expectations in my head and since this experience is coming so soon after camp I really have not even had time to think about that. People have asked me how they can pray and my response is “just pray.”

Two nights ago as I sat at Kairos at Brentwood Baptist I read the words of a song as hundreds of people around me sang them so freely. I have heard the words before, but last night they became so real to me. As I thought about leaving and questioned what life in Peru is going to look like I began to pray they words over my trip.

Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold
To see a revolution somehow.

Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead
I need a resurrection somehow

Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground
With the sound of revival

As I leave today this is my prayer. Let love explode. Let hope rise. Let Heaven roar and fire fall. Let me see a revolution somehow. Thank you all for showing such amazing love and support as I have prepared to leave. I leave knowing that I will be thought of often and covered in prayer daily. And for that I am truly thankful.