Just over a week ago I returned from my third mission trip
to Guatemala and I’m still not quite back yet. As I have said on second trip I felt
like it would not be my last, that I would be going back, at the time I took
this thought for granted and assumed I would be going again the next year with
my normal group of people (my sister and others from my church) but of course that’s
not how life works and it took me a little longer and a slightly different
course to get there. About four months ago I received an e-mail from the
ministry that I served with on my two previous trips telling me that there was
a team going down in February looking for four more people to join them. So let
me just say this is not something I normally would have jumped at, I don’t
generally enjoy doing things on my own, and as I said my last two trips were
with my sister and people from my church I had gotten to know really well, so
that fact that I even considered this was kind of crazy.
Long story short I prayed about it and decided that I was supposed
to go.
So somehow I made this decision to step out in faith and go
to Guatemala on my own with a group of complete strangers, in all honesty it
scared me like you would not believe, to the point that even after I made the
decision to go there was still a battle in my mind for weeks between being
really really excited and completely and totally overwhelmed at the mere
thought of what I had decided to do. This trip would be different than any that
I had gone on before, I had no idea what to expect, and even though I knew in
my heart I was supposed to go I had no idea why, so my only clear thought on
the matter was that my last trip was not the last time I would be going and
that this was my opportunity to return and live out the promise of going back,
and that this would either be my final goodbye or my new start in finding my
way back.
Thankfully the latter won out. I don’t even know where to
start with how wonderful this whole experience was for me and how much God has
spoken to and is still speaking to me about what He is doing in my life. The trip
itself was completely amazing, I connected flawlessly with the team and had
more fun than I could have even hoped for and I truly believe all of it played
out exactly how it was meant to. As I said before the second time I went to
Guatemala I wanted more than anything to feel the connection that so many of my
friends had to it and I simply missed the mark, so this time with my fight
against expectations I was almost preparing myself to say goodbye but instead
finally caught hold of the connection and for the first time was really able to
say hello…
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