No end like the deep end.

Sometimes I get really pensive about the future and all the possibilities it holds. Will I make the right choices, will I make the most of what God's entrusted to me, will I completely screw things up? Or possibly, just maybe, could I end up happy? It seems sometimes like asking God to bury the moon in my back yard, you know wanting to end up happy.

Interestingly enough though, I have more joy in my heart than I have ever known. I feel peace and not the chaos I grew to know so well. I'm excited to see where life leads me because I have goals to work towards and lots of opportunities that are so close I can almost see them becoming real. I'm not afraid to dream big anymore, because I know the one thing I want most in my life is to delight in the Lord and if my aim is simply to do that I cannot fail. To God, I cannot fail, to the world and to myself, I will still fail, but that all becomes secondary.

If the LORD delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. (Psalm 37:23-25)

It still amazes me how faithful God is and how I'm impulsive and quick to forget. I have housing for August! Another piece of the LeaderTreks puzzle has, once again, fallen into place. I feel as though I have jumped into the deep end and found out that I can swim. The closer it gets to September the more at ease I become and the more excited I am to dive in deeper.

Please keep Dan and I in your prayers as we travel tomorrow and please pray for our impact over the course of the summer on the students, the staff, the volunteers, the missionary partners, and the parents. This is so much bigger than we are and I don't think we really realize that.
Welp, good night :)