PSALM 84

I woke up looked at the phone and saw 6:15. If I was going to make it to church on time I needed to get up immediately. I drifted back to sleep. But familiar chords floated to my ears from deep within my sheets. " All I need is you Lord, is you Lord. All I need is you ." Except when I hear this song my brain automatically translates it into Kirundi. "niweweh nifuza , nifuza niwehweh guza" And just like that I was transported to the mountains of Burundi with their red earth and beautiful people.... ::sigh:: ::smile:: Turns out I had accidentally pressed the Pandora button as I dropped the phone back to the bed. Regardless, I couldn't help but get up Sunday morning! Not only with a desire to make it to service on time, but with an excitement about the approaching trip to Burundi! Now I am trying to balance being excited about traveling to two places- Burundi & Uganda. I am trying to not lean to my own understanding about these two differe...

So many blog ideas have come to me over the last week and a half, but I haven't made the time to write them out. The last few weeks have been taunt with lessons and emotions;  a dramatic tango of disappointment and surprise, favor and discipline.  Now that I am sitting and writing- what is there to say other than "I don't know"? I have continued to receive funds to travel on my trip to Uganda- but still not enough to go. So when will I go? I don't know. The sign up for Burundi is at the end of the month. Where will I get $300 for registration and $2700 more for the trip? I don't know. For once I don't know and I'm not too bothered by it. I don't have to know. God knows and that's enough. Is this what it means to enter His rest?  To admit not knowing the next move or time frame without anxiety, is that entering His rest? I wish it was only resigned to missions trips, but really this state of not knowing has pervaded the realm of work...