Naturally, everything gets more intense the closer one gets to launch time. Finances are going to be extremely tight between bills before we leave and paying off the balance on the trip itself. Time is becoming elusive; we’re adjusting things and canceling things to try to find time to put together this packing list. Last night Timothy got hit with a sore throat and a bit of congestion – which doesn’t surprise us in the least. And we haven’t even left, but we’re already learning new things about submitting and obedience.

We leave for Kurnool, India one week from today. I’ve gone back and forth between being excited and nervous, and now I’m just looking forward to two weeks with my Lord. Two weeks I don’t have to take hours out of my day to put together client portfolios and all the rest.

I was talking with our youth pastor, who just got back from Mexico with the Jr. High kids, about how it hits them when everything else they’re used to is taken away and they’re just there with Jesus. My spirit got excited. Please take everything else away, I don’t want it and it’s always in the way. I can’t wait.

In the meantime we’ll be busy gathering things like sandals and deet and old sheets. Please remember us when you’re with Him; I covet your prayers.

I went home last night and made tea and found John 1 because I missed Jesus. I got to verse 29, “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” And I cried.