Camp is Close!

I can tell because the spiritual and emotional battle has begun. I have learned that for myself, strange bouts of hypersensitivity and teeter-tottering sweeps across the emotional fulcrum are a sure sign that things are about to happen. But good things. God things. Because God is good and He is in control. The emotional inexplicabilities are small distractions and they do not have to restrict the child of God from doing his father's work.

Still, please pray for me. Today began as a strangely sad one, accompanied by faint feelings of depression. The result was somewhat crippling at first. I experienced these emotions last year while preparing to leave for this same missions trip that I will begin this week. Last year I thought the main cause was the stress of getting my new house in liveable condition before I left my roommate there alone for two weeks. But hindsight says there was more to it than that.

God is working a lot in my heart right now. There are things I could never have imagined myself being willing to do that I now get excited at the possibility of. In the past I have worried about what God would call me to do and anticipated my own resistance. But I am beginning to trust that whatever God calls me to do, I will truly love and enjoy with all of my being, if my attitude and willingness are rightly drawn from His strength.

So please pray for me, for the team that is coming from the States (many of whom are my Nashville friends!) and for the Ukrainian technical, administrating, and interpreting teams who will begin a week at an orphan camp in just a few days. Pray that we will all be willing tools in the hands of our creator, that we will remember to find the extra mile in Him, and that we will be love in the eyes, minds, and souls of the orphans.

And now I am going to enjoy a bowl of ice-cream before I go to bed. Funny Ukrainian factoid: ice-cream here in the grocery stores comes packaged like huge sausages and is most easily served with a knife rather than an ice-cream scoop :)