The orientation team with all of our luggage :-) Some were going to be gone for up to a year which sort of helps to justify the amount of stuff we were taking. Such incredible people. The two guys in the picture would be my travel buddies to Nairobi.
This morning I woke up with a cold...bummer, but the really important papers from my school that I was not able to pick up arrived from Milwaukee. Praise God!
Today was full of meetings and talks. We had a presentation on cultural differences, talked to the travel people about last minute details and paper work (the two women who work in travel at AIM are AMAZING!), had a very, very good talk on our purpose for going and God's kingdom and then settled last minute packing issues. All in all it was a pretty full day.
The talk on our purpose and God's kingdom was nothing that I hadn't heard before, but was so refreshing to have it shared again in a new light. Rae, one of the short term directors spoke to us about the power of God and who He is, who we are and the relationship between the two. It is always overwhelming for me to try to wrap my mind around the Greatness of God - the Creator of everything, the Master of all. He holds this world together and has created a universe with such depth that man cannot possibly explore its total vastness. Wow. On top of that He is humble enough to take an interest in me. I am far from perfect and yet this perfect God gave up all of His gold in heaven to be born into the dirt and grime of human life so that we might be friends...relatives even. He sacrificed everything to call me daughter. Not only that, this powerful God invited me to play on His team and I wasn't even the last pick! And the great seceret is... He is guarenteed to win! Pretty amazing, pretty exciting, pretty sobering. I am not that great of a player, "to save a wretch like me" is an accurate description. The crazy thing is...He KNOWS that...and He still picked me. As a member of His team my job is to stand in confidence knowing that He will give me all the power to be an effective player if I let Him and if I choose to use it. Incerdible. My job now is to go...to go out standing tall knowing that my team is going to win, knowing that I have a vital role to play and knowing that others need to understand that they can be on the winning team too! How crazy is it to think that so often I stand here with God who is a world of love, encouragement and support and just keep it to myself, too selfish to let others in on the seceret? I am not the only one that needs these things. Incredible to recognize and humbling to admit.
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