LA/Boston, the radio air waves (sports talk) is nothing but Lakers/Celtics! When it comes to the Lakers, this "City" includes Ventura, San Bernadino, Riverside and Orange Counties. All call the Lakers "their team" which is over 18 million people. It is going to be fun!
Jill,
Thanks for the congrats. I am excited and very grateful. So, I'm gonna love Barcelona, huh? Very cool!
lnf,
Sightseeing? Yep, every trip include a bit of sight seeing but just the experience of being in another country is very cool. Every trip rejuvinates me to be the best servant I can, here in my own back yard. I have story after story after story of how God used me to reach out to someone here in my community as I was either about to go out or was coming back from a trip. The enthusiasm is infectious as my friends who cannot go, hear the stories and benefit from the encouragement I am able to give them in their circumstances.
They all know how I got shafted in the marriage yet they see how I knew I had to cling to God. Now they see how He has blessed me on these trips, they see how He blesssed me with this job and they see the confidence I have that God will take bad things and work them out for His good.
Yep, I am fired up!
Also, I still encourage you to get connected to an area you believe God wants you to go at some point and start supporting missionaries currently serving their through prayer and encouraging communications.
Story from Hawaii about France: A group of bible college students went to Hawaii as their end of the year trip and they were there the week before we arrived and stayed through the duration of our trip as well. One of those students had been praying about going to France but she only told one or two of her friends. While on the island, she encountered a couple who had been praying and praying for France and wanted to support someone doing missionary work there. The end result is this student went to Hawaii to do work for the Lord and wound up getting the support she had been praying for to go do the Lord's work in France. Go figure!
So, again, I encourage you to pray about where He wants you to support, then connect to some missionaries there. If your church doesn't have any in that area or if you don't have an organization you want to support there, I can probably lead you to some resources off the board. (Bethie, Jill, Karen know how to reach me).
If something or some place is on your heart, the Lord probably put it there and has something or someone there He wants to connect you to, some way, some how. It takes a step of faith and the God does the rest (I have seen it happen way too often to doubt what God can do with a willing heart).
Committed2Him- "C2H" All Things (Back from Spain!)...18
