A Mere 24 Hours....

A mere 24 hours from now we will have awakened to a new day full of new mercies reset and enough grace sufficent to comfort the anxious and heavy hearted, tear-filled family members that we will leave behind at DFW airport. A mere 24 hours from now we will stand in terminal D, being covered in hugs, kisses, and prayer by family and friends, and Naomi's Village staff and board members. A mere 24 hours from now, after we have released all twenty-seven checked luggage bags, full of generous gifts and supplies, to British Airways representatives, we will wait.....

We will wait in the customs lines & security lines, presenting our passports and identification; we will wait in the seating area to board our aircraft; we will wait in the narrow aislesways to find our seats, which are clustered together, and stow our carry-ons; we will wait with hearts ready to burst with anticipation to see, hear, taste, feel and experience all that our God has for us as we leave the comforts of home and take this obedient step of faith into the mysterious unknown....unknown only to us but not to Him.

Unknown only to us but not to Him are the people we will encounter as we journey to London and Nairobi, and then onward to Maai Mahui. Unknown only to us but not to Him are the unforeseen snags in our plans we will face and the solutions we will employ to reach resolution. Unknown only to us but not to Him are the good works He has predestined for us to walk in as we go, taking His gospel and love to the hurting and the lost. Unknown only to us but not to Him are the joys He has for each team member in getting to see Him more clearly, hear Him more definitively and love Him more deeply than we did a mere 24 hours ago.