11 Days

11 days till Dan and I leave Regina and start our journey.

Wait. Did I just say 11 days? Oh my. Where have the past two months gone? It feels like yesterday when I was just buying our tickets from Toronto to Nairobi. A lot has happened in the last 2 weeks, but there is still much work to get done.

I am in the process of finishing up my course work for this semester. It is so difficult to focus on a proposal for a thesis when I know I am going to be in Kenya in less than two weeks. Our vaccinations are all done; plans have been made; contacts in Kenya have been established; money has come in; prayers have been made . . . What now?

It is so tough to sit in this waiting time. It feels like the closer we get to the date the more stuff pops up. "Did we get travel insurance?" "How many bags are we allowed to take on the plane?" "Who is picking us up in Nairobi?" "How much toilet paper should we bring for two months?"

This is my life right now. Trying to fall asleep while wrestling through the Old Testament's constant emphasis on Zion in comparison with Jesus' announcement of the kingdom of God, accompanied by distractions like toilet paper and pairs of underwear.

Keep pushing. Continue to cross things off the list. In 11 days it will all be out of my hands. All I can do now is work to make sure when it is out of my hands it is done.