New Horizons to Pursue

Oh boy friends, the time is drawing near.
Chapters of my life are coming to a close despite my best attempts at stretching out time. But there is a cheesy quote from the end of a Tarzan song (the Broadway version of Two Worlds) which says "with every ending comes a new beginning."

I honestly can do nothing but shake my head in disbelief at how fast time has gone this semester. Actually, I feel like it was just yesterday that I was accepting my high school diploma, let alone my college diploma. Yesterday I walked down the aisle in front of one of the most amazing girls who I have ever been blessed to know and could barely find it in me to let go of her train and let her run after the man of her dreams and drive off into the sunset. My precious Sadie is now married and this weekend has been a neverending stream of goodbyes. They haven't quite sunk in yet because something else has been pressing on my mind...

I will be on Summer Project in four days. Oh my goodness gracious, four nights from now I will be back in those tacky colored condos getting ready to lead students into the craziest adventure of their lives to date. Oh my goodness. I am so excited and nervous and excited and terrified and excited. I feel totally unequipped to do this, but hey, that feeling was pretty common for me this year, and I somehow survived by the grace of God. And I will be depending a lot on the grace of God in the next six weeks. Oh boy.

So yeah, I have been couch surfing since Wednesday (some wedding events took place in Orlando and some in Gainesville, where a girl is subleasing my room, leaving me homeless) and I will be continuing to do so until Thursday when I get to project, so I haven't updated in a while and may not be able to update again until this weekend.

Oh boy. Please pray for me as I make final preparations for my trip. My support is basically raised, I still need to check my mail here in Gainesville, but once again, God has kept true to his promises and I have the minimum amount that I need for this summer. I am still raising support for travel expenses, so if you are still interested in donating, you can either use the link from the two posts below or you can send a donation directly to the place I will be staying this summer, I will post the address as soon as I know it.

I spent a lot of time on the phone last week speaking with students who will be coming on the project, seeing how their semesters were going and checking up on their support raising. It made me so excited and took me back to the weeks before project began last summer when I had no idea what was coming for me. I cannot wait to meet the students and I hope that they don't get tired of me starting off sentences with "when I was on project...." or "last summer..."

Oh gosh guys, this is crazy. I know this is where God wants me, there is no way I could have made it this far without Him. I found a subleaser for my room and by some miracle I don't need to take summer classes for grad school, which is apparently very strange when you get a Master's degree in something other than what you got your undergrad in. I basically knew I wanted to do this since last summer, and this battle, though uphill, was not nearly as steep as I expected. Crazy. God is awesome. Please pray for me.

"How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me."
Psalm 13:2-6

So, to conclude this entry (which has been extremely scatterbrained, my apologies), I will quote a record THIRD Disney movie (the title is from A Whole New World from Aladdin).

In the words of Captain Jack Sparrow,

Bring me that horizon.

Kelly