Finding Momentum

Hey every­one, I’m stoked to be leav­ing so soon! I’ve been telling peo­ple that I’m feel­ing a mix of excite­ment and ner­vous­ness. Excite­ment to be embark­ing on such an adven­ture and ner­vous­ness because, well, who knows what I’ll find in store? I’m won­der­ing whether this trip turns out to be a huge, life-changing expe­ri­ence or if this trip has more sub­tle effects in my life.

The other day, a friend was pray­ing over us that we’d see this trip as a “sign­post” in our lives. It was a good reminder to me to know that the sig­nif­i­cance of this trip is to give me just enough infor­ma­tion to make the next step. I think that’s par­tic­u­larly per­ti­nent in the con­fu­sion of this life stage when I really want to see the entire path from begin­ning to end. I’m learn­ing to sim­ply trust what’s been revealed to me. When I’m tempted to think of this way­point as the des­ti­na­tion, I’m reminded these sign­posts con­tinue to appear through our lives point us toward Christ. And sud­denly I’m not so fear­ful any­more, because I know our Father is faith­ful to show me just what I need to know at the right moment.

I’m def­i­nitely thank­ful to have you all pray­ing for us and sup­port­ing us. Your words of encour­age­ment and inter­est in our trip have really helped me see this trip as a “send­ing” action by our com­mu­nity, instead of “Sarah and Andrew’s trip.” That’s pretty cool, and I’m really glad to have you with us. We’ll be pray­ing for you too; please don’t hes­i­tate to get in touch with us if you have any prayer requests.

For those of you who are curi­ous, we fly out from SFO on Mon­day (Feb. 2) at 1:15PM. We’ll be spend­ing about 2 days sight­see­ing in Lon­don, after which we’ll con­tinue on our way to Botswana.