“ and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord ”

Countdown to l’Afrique: eighteen. days.

My ride to church texted me at 4 this morning to tell me she couldn’t give me a ride, but I didn’t get it until I woke up- at 10. 

So I’ve spent the better half of my morning listening to some suggestions from K Bake’s music blog that I hadn’t gotten to yet (I had to, after all that musical jam and convo last night) and reading Ephesians. 

Apparently for Project, we are reading through it (I’m guessing 6 chapters, 6 weeks… there’s some correlation there).  I am getting more and more excited every day.  It’s still slightly surreal that hopefully in 3 weeks, I will be on my way to AFRICA.  At the beginning of the school year, if you’d asked me if I ever saw myself doing this, I would have had mild hesitation before saying something about it sounding great in theory, but not realistic.  My fam has one missionary kid already, and for the sole purpose of not wanting to follow in her footsteps, I would have likely rejected the idea.  My only compromise had always been that it would be really cool to travel somewhere on a team with my sister and do a mission for a summer.  But with her, and those pretend plans were imagined much further in the future.  When I was done with school.  And more settled, more grounded.  More secure and more comfortable. 

But it’s funny how I’ve realized that He never works on my time schedule, under my expectations.  He called me out of my life this summer, on my own.  And like I said all those months ago, I wanted to be able to say that like Abraham, when God called me, I got up and went.  No questions asked.  My feet were obeying before my mind even had time to think.  It’s a good thing it worked out that way. 

There’s just so much going on  right now that it’s hard to focus on any one thing.  Between finals, support-raising and preparing my heart for Africa, and getting ready to leave CoMO and preparing my heart for home, the only constant is the sovereignty of God over every aspect of all of it. 

Throughout the week of unceasing prayer, I kind of went in and out of Ephesians 4&5.  And I just love the way the Spirit will reveal new things to my eyes about the same passage in scripture each time I read it.  So even today, I was loving the picture of walking as “children of the light.”  And I’m trying to apply that to each one of the things on my To-Do List. 

Okay, I know this was super short, but I’ve got Developmental Psych and History books that are begging for my attention this Sunday afternoon.  If anything, I know I will update at least one last time before I leave for Togo.  And I can guarantee you that one will be a long one. 

Oh and if you want a little summary of what the ‘Pray Without Ceasing’ week was like, check out this link here:

http://kebedefaith.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/pray-without-ceasing/