ieso es todo!

This is it!


   We leave Friday. We've started packing, we've started cleaning the house...sort of, and I've started to panic. 

WHAT ARE WE DOING? ARE WE CRAZY?!!

Thats me, under the bed hiding from kidnappers...

These two thoughts run through my mind pretty much every few hours. I'll think of something I need to get done before we leave and then all of a sudden it hits me, like a wave from behind, and I find myself starting to sweat and get a little nauseous...seriously. I begin to run through all of the horrible things that could happen to us in these next eight weeks...which really just looks like scenes from the movie Taken.



I am not really sure why though, oh wait...I put my faith in my circumstances and not Jesus.

                                                    BOOM! WORLD ROCKED!

How could God love me as much as He says he does if my world is collapsing around me? He does, He does, He does. As I heard, so providentially from the pulpit this morning, my faith does not rest in my faith, but in the Object of my faith. It's in Jesus, who lived, died, and rose again. 

This is what calms my weary and nervous heart. It's this truth that will give me the freedom to board that plane on friday, proclaiming to myself (over and over again, if necessary) the Lord and creator of the Universe has seen fit to love me and never let me go... no matter what.


excited, nervous, excited, nervous this is the life of the christian! 

Thank you for all your prayers thus far. I would ask that they continue. Specifically, please be praying that our travel is smooth and that making connecting flights would go easily for our group. Please pray that we would be able to sleep and rest on the flight abroad and that Ryan and I, who will most likely be sleep deprived would be able to patiently deal with our children and others our first day on the ground.

my next post (which will include pictures of our luggage:) ) will be from Madrid!!

muchos gracias, 

Ada