Five weeks...and counting!

We leave for China five weeks from today. Five weeks! 35 days! Wow! I am not prepared at all! Usually by this time, my office/closet is packed with all kinds of stuff. I have not shopped, yet for this trip. I did get in gear a little bit yesterday and start planning teh stuff that I need to order. It is hard for me to believe that it is so close.

This is going to be an incredible trip. I know that from past experiences, but this year is also going to be a little hard, too. We feel like God is telling us to go this year, but we also feel like He is telling us that this is going to be our last year to go for awhile. It is hard to think about that because these people, this orphanage has become so much a part of our lives. They have changed our thinking, our perspective, and our approach to many things just by being themselves. And God did so much in our lives by going on these trips and has allowed us to meet so many people who we now call friends. There is a reason that God takes us on journeys, a reason He tell us yes or no, a reason that He is sometimes silent. We make up the dreams in our head about how something should go, but we serve a God who's love picks up where dreams leave off. That is our God. We dreamed of a trip, but thank God that His plans are bigger than our dreams! I know that once again, He will be waiting for us when we arrive...