25 Days and Counting

Dear FF (a.k.a. Faith Family ;o) )

We leave for Uganda in 25 days. It has been several weeks since Leo and I made our decision to join this mission.  My reason for going back then was to get closer to God, to see Him at work in a place in the world that needs Him so much. That desire is evolving.

I think we are in a tender time right now.  It seems to me that God uses his "outside voice" when he first tells us He wants us to go and serve him.  But in the weeks after that……I have tried to revisit that clarity I felt about this decision, to hear His voice again.  But He is using his "still small voice" now and I strain to hear it.  Meanwhile, there are lots of thoughts that swirl through my head every day -- thoughts that are sprinkled with fear and doubt, and therefore definitely not "of God." 

So I try to keep my focus on something Kirsten said to me -- going to Uganda is being obedient to God.  Each day, I must take the next step, and the next, out of obedience.  To do that I must trust that He will take care of us, that He will handle all those scary things.  Trust and Obey.  To learn that, alone, would be enough.  But I know that is just the beginning.

It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deuteronomy 13:4

Mary