Señor, hágase tu voluntad!

I thought I posted this one, but this was my last post before we started our journey!

11 more days until we leave the country! All of the final preparations are being made for the trip. We had our last team meeting on Tuesday, last t-shirt Thursday, and our last prayer meeting is this Tuesday! My blog posts will become more frequent as we get closer to the trip.

I feel like the title of my blog posts for the, now, 3 that I have done accurately describe the message I'm trying to convey. My title for this post is Señor, hágase tu voluntad which means Lord, your will be done. As I prepare myself for the trip, this has been my prayer.

I recently found out that at our hygiene station, before we wash the children's feet, we will be making the beaded bracelets with them and explaining the meaning of the different colored beads (in Spanish of course!). After learning this information, I was excited to get to spend some more time with the children, tell them about Jesus Christ, and show them love. However, this morning as I was reading my devotional, it really hit me the importance of this situation.

My devotional for this particular morning was titled "Stop Waiting and Start Trying!" and it spoke to me. (By the way, if you need a good devotional, I strongly recommend this one. It is Trusting God Day by Day by Joyce Meyer.) She talks about how finding your calling and doing the work God wants you to do will take putting yourself out of your comfort zone and possibly going down the wrong path once or twice until you find the right one. I've known for a quite some time, that God has put a calling on my life for me to be a doctor, but maybe it doesn't end there.

I consider myself to be somewhat shy, and I would definitely say I'm leery of things outside of my comfort zone. For example, I am really uncomfortable when praying out loud and I get incredibly nervous about sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. So, I tend to let others do those jobs.

I know making a bracelet with a child and talking with them about Jesus seems simple (it did to me!) but how incredible of an opportunity we have here! Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ has the ability to radically change their life. It is a drink of water to someone who is thirty, a piece of bread to someone who is hungry, and it is the light in all of the darkness. And I get the opportunity to share that good news! So, instead of shying away from this incredible opportunity, I am going to boldly walk where the Lord calls, so that His will may be done! My spanish may not be the best and I may not be the best speaker, but I cannot stand in my own way of such incredible things God is trying to do anymore.

So today, I say Lord, your will be done! My excitement for this trip grows with each passing day! Please be in prayer for our entire team as we prepare ourselves for such an important journey!

Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.