What are you made of?

Chris and I have arrived for our Singaporean adventure. Glamorous you may think, but I think it will be a challenge well worth it. Word of advice, if you are married and travel over 20 hours to get some place, you will experience turbulence. The key is to avoid pretending it is not happening and to embrace the other rugged side of your spouse. You see, traveling is a chance to learn patience, trust, and joy in the little things. Chris and I are approaching one month without an apartment to call our own. It is tough to be living out of suitcases and wondering where you can do your next set of laundry. But, at the same time, Jesus did call his disciples to pack very little when they traveled and to relay on him. A stretch for someone as pampered as myself. However, it is a good lesson to be learning. What is really important?

This trip will teach us many things. So far, I am learning that my hair is wavy in 90 percent humidity, that I am quite anxious over very small details, and that I have a high standard of living. In all of these things, God is teaching me that my hair is beautiful no matter the humidity, that he cares about the details so I don't have to, and that I need to give up on living the riches life. I would say these are very good lessons to learn in two days! How much more am I going to learn in 17 months!

To encourage you, I would say that you do not have to travel across the world to figure things about yourself. Sometimes, you just have to take a risk. Get out of your comfort zone and you will find out a whole lot about the heart that lives inside of you. You will learn really good things about your heart. And, you will learn some not so good things. But, the cool thing is that God works on both. Travel or no travel, you should pick up the least of your things, go out into the world with your head held high, and embrace the life before you...no matter how your hair looks! I challenge you today to ask yourself, what am I made of? If its fear, let it go! If its courage, embrace it, step out and reach for the life God is holding in front of you.