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Excitement!

So I am really excited for several reasons!

Reason #1 Someone I know is now a full time missionary in Haiti! Wow! 
It is truly inspiring to find out about someone who is doing what you want to do! It reminds you that the seed in your heart is a tree, only it's in a compact state. But one day, after the right amount of nourishment, and development of the root structure, that seed will sprout!


Reason #2 I am also excited because of the way God has once again proven himself to be so faithful. I was truly worried about paying for this trip. I feared a repeat of Zambia round 1.  No money. No trip. No job. :( Fear is 100% natural, we just shouldn't expect room for faith to move in, if we choose to embrace fear. I remember pondering over where to go this year, and the $3,200 price tag attached to Burundi along with the October dates seemed to make Burundi an unrealistic option. Yet, as I listened to this message by Keith Battle, a different fear set in! My faith muscles were atrophying. Faith Atrophy! This is a no can do for any believer! 

I remember telling a past mentor about my odds defying, move to New York and she said "well you can do that because you're young!" It was then and is still now my prayer that age have nothing but a positive correlation with the amount of faith I exercise. You see I had traveled...as a teacher... out of the country for two weeks before. Every missions trip I've gone on, I've had to trust God for provision, no matter whose paycheck it primarily came from. So this Burundi trip wasn't really a big step of faith, it was a regular one, yet I was scared! So I signed up to stay young and limber in my faith, and boy has God been increasing my faith! People have just steadily given, sacrificed, prayed, encouraged, just WOW! 

Reason #3 Yet, there is still another reason that I am excited! I love my neighborhood. God has been doing a work inside my heart for the people I live among. It has been my prayer that as I move into year number 2 of living in southeast, that I progress past the hello, how are you relationships that I have with my neighbors. God has been answering with more in depth conversations about him, rent increases, and school politics, but I'm believing for more. I had been wanting to have people over for dinner, just to get to know them,but I didn't have a dinner table. One of my friends reminded me that I had not because I asked not.  

 "Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8

The invitations!
So I asked God for a table. Not only did he bless me with a table, it had a feature that I used to desire back when I lived in New York! A bench! :) Then I knew that the time was nigh to start inviting neighbors to dinner. I saw a relevant message on Focus on the Family Radio, so I decided to listen.  So GREAT was the conviction that I immediately set out to create invitations. Last week I invited my first family and cooked the practice dinner for my friend. Unfortunately their work schedules aren't allowing them to come just yet, but that's OK because I live in a building with over 10 apartments! Now I am praying who to invite next. After all, we're supposed to love our neighbors right? What better mission field than your own neighborhood? Your own block? Your own building!
My first invitation placed on their door! :) 


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