"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what will you wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life...Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own?"
-Matthew 6:25-34
God is continually making it so clear that YWAM is where He wants me. Every time I worry, doubt, or get sad about missing people, God steps in and shows me that it's exactly what He has for me. What could be more perfect than knowing you are going exactly where God is leading? Such comfort in that thought. Of course, I am nervous, scared, anxious, excited, sad, happy, stoked, in disbelief....etc etc
I am feeling so many different things that it is completely confusing. But God has got this, and so more than anything I am expectantly excited because I know He is going to rock my world through this experience. And right now, He is rocking it through all of you, and all of your generous support. I have had donations come in from such an array of different people. I feel so surrounded and saturated in love from every community I've ever been apart of. From coworkers, to best friends, to the church, to high school friends, to family, to people I have never met in my life... I have been fully loved.
With six weeks left in the United States(wow that's crazy), I am in a state of preparation, anxiousness, and an intention to just spend time with all of the people that I love. I am in the final stretch of fundraising, and excited to see God move through that area of my life in the next six weeks. Thank you again for choosing to step beside me in this journey, it always has, and always will mean so much to me.
Just want to leave you with a cool story of how God specifically encouraged me this past week.
I was starting to get really nervous about the flight/traveling portion of this journey. My experience traveling abroad is almost non-existent(I've flown to Mexico once...), and I just started to be worried and anxious about missing flights, or misplacing my passport, or being alone in an airport confused etc... Nervous to the point where there were nights I couldn't sleep because of it.. There is a girl, Amber, from Vacaville(2 hours north of here) also participating in this DTS. However, the flight I was on had since increased in price and when I talked to her last week she was still about $1000 dollars short of being able to purchase her airfare. I was really bummed because I really felt like I could use a travel buddy in order to feel more secure about all of this. Sunday night when my roommate and I were praying before bed, I randomly asked God to do something cool and specific this week, not having anything in mind. Monday morning I get a text from my friend Amber to let me know some stuff fell into place and she got her ticket and IS ON MY FLIGHT! How awesome is that!!!
On top of that...wednesday morning, another girl facebooked me to let me know that she was on my flight from LAX to Brisbane! God totally eased my worry and answered my prayers. After a few weeks of worry, stress, and just not completely being stoked about YWAM, I found myself once again totally completely stoked, excited, encouraged and ready to go. It's so cool how God guides, encourages and meets are needs. And to think how cool this preparation experience has been...it's like how freaking amazing is the ACTUAL experience going to be. yep yep yep, I'm pumped!
It's getting real. It's getting close.
Me(and a handful of other college students) were prayed out by our college group this past tuesday.
Piece by piece it's hitting hard.
Hey Kayla, it's almost time to go!
God Bless!
