Sunday, March 26, 2006
I leave for Mississippi tomorrow (Monday) at 2:00 (at Apex United Methodist Church..the big white one in downtown Apex...if anyone wants to come give me some send off good luck hugs...I'll be there around 1:30...hint hint haha). I really need this trip...though not knowing people scares me a little bit...mostly because they already know eachother so I'll very much be an outsider. But...I need a mission project to get me through the rest of this year. I'm hoping I can make these memories last until graduation, and then I've got a few more trips planned this summer that I can look forward to for more batches of sanity hopefully. It's odd though...I can't even think about many things after this trip...I feel like I'm going to be gone forever...and in a way I kind of wish I would be. And yet that's not completely true because there are still some people here I'd miss way too much.
People keep asking me why this mission trip will keep me sane and honestly...I have no idea. I just know it will. "We walk by faith, not by sight,"~2nd Corinthians and I'm too lazy to look up the chapter and verse numbers. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." ~Proverbs 3:5-6. So basically I'm just going to focus on those two passages and not worry about why this mission trip is so important to me, why I feel like I was called to go, or why I feel completely insane and that if I don't go I'll random explode and yet I think this mission trip might temporarily calm that feeling. It sounds kind of odd for my religion to be telling me not to ask why, but in this case I'll gladly make it one less thing to ponder.
So while I'm gone I want lots of love! Leave me some messages on my cell phone, text or regular, because we're allowed to bring cells for this project. For sake of making this not searchable or whatever I'm going to do the weird little typing out phone numbery thingie nine.one.nine.two.one.zero.four.four.zero.zero lol that looks so retarded but whatever; now you guys have no excuse for not calling or texting me! I'll check messages every night and I might be able to call you back at night if I have some free time but I'm not sure.
And finally, a quote I stole from Andy's away message:
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
~Ghandi
I love you all. Be safe and have a wonderful spring break.
People keep asking me why this mission trip will keep me sane and honestly...I have no idea. I just know it will. "We walk by faith, not by sight,"~2nd Corinthians and I'm too lazy to look up the chapter and verse numbers. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." ~Proverbs 3:5-6. So basically I'm just going to focus on those two passages and not worry about why this mission trip is so important to me, why I feel like I was called to go, or why I feel completely insane and that if I don't go I'll random explode and yet I think this mission trip might temporarily calm that feeling. It sounds kind of odd for my religion to be telling me not to ask why, but in this case I'll gladly make it one less thing to ponder.
So while I'm gone I want lots of love! Leave me some messages on my cell phone, text or regular, because we're allowed to bring cells for this project. For sake of making this not searchable or whatever I'm going to do the weird little typing out phone numbery thingie nine.one.nine.two.one.zero.four.four.zero.zero lol that looks so retarded but whatever; now you guys have no excuse for not calling or texting me! I'll check messages every night and I might be able to call you back at night if I have some free time but I'm not sure.
And finally, a quote I stole from Andy's away message:
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
~Ghandi
I love you all. Be safe and have a wonderful spring break.
