Friday, January 9, 2015

How Will I Feel?




How will I feel?  Will I be safe?  Will I get sick?  Will I be as excited in Haiti as I am now?  We all have questions.  We all have doubts.  Each of us will search to find purpose and meaning in what we are about to see.

The mission trip we signed up for months ago is now upon us.  The pre-trip preparations are all complete.  Items purchased, donations collected and everything is packed.  We are now faced with a couple of days of quiet waiting and reflecting on what we are about to embark.

There will be joyous times.  There will be uplifting moments.  There will also be days filled with introspection.  All of this will come together to make a permanent imprint on us and the way we look at things.  We will all be affected differently, but this is certain, we will all be affected.

"What do you have to offer?  More than you probably think.  You have the gifts and talents you were born with.  The blessings of education.  The skills you've honed as you worked at home and in the marketplace.  The life experiences that have matured you.  The pain that deepened you. The love that spills from God's heart into yours.

Once you decide to invest even a small portion of the blessings God has given to you into the lives of others, you'll find the seed of something powerful sown in your own soul.  And someday, in the midst of giving yourself in the spirit and act of volunteering, that seed will blossom into the amazing realization that this is what you were made for!" --- Bill Hybels-- The Volunteer Revolution

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