i'm fifty!

(and i like to kick and bend and stretch ... sorry, couldn't resist.)

so, it's quite obvious that i don't do a great deal of blogging on this piece. i love to write, but i'm not real big on writing about myself just to hear myself ... err, type. under the radar, that's my motto. with the upcoming holidays, physically preparing for my trip, preparing my co-workers and temp for my absence (AHH!), and making time to visit with my friends and family, i probably won't be doing much around here until i actually leave. besides, the intention of this blah is to use while i am in uganda, which i promise i will. mom.

tomorrow is somewhat of a mile marker ... i leave for africa in fifty days. yeah, fifty. what a small number when looking at it as the time between now and the biggest experience of my life thus. i have said all along that this process of preparing for rafiki as had quite an effect on me already. there's an unrecognizable boldness i've discovered that i think is going to be a heavily-relied on tool in my near future. and if for some strange reason, i never actually make it to africa, i am grateful to God for the remodel already taking place in my heart and in my mind. afterall, me going to africa is not really about "me going to africa" .......

it's amazing what can happen when God's timing and our earthly timing intersect ... a kairos moment, if you will.

i am impressed by the words of Nate Saint:

if God would grant us the wisdom, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short; we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ.