24 dias!!

It is crazy! 24 days, God willing, until I leave for beautiful, magical, Honduras. It is so crazy to me that I am going. That its almost here! Do you ever feel that sort of excitement? For Christmas? For the presents, the family, the good food, peace? For your birthday? For one more year to pass, for the ability to drive, or to drink, or to get married? To see your loved one again? To see someone long gone due to death, army service, or simply one week's separation? Do you ever get that way when you think about Jesus' second coming? Does it fill you with awe, with expectation, or with dread? Do you feel 'ready'? Are you satisfied with your life now? How can you change how you live in order to better spend your time given here? How can you better prepare yourself for that day? What things really won't matter then, that you are spending a lot of time on now? Should you be spending less time, or no time, on those things? Can you imagine that day? Jesus coming in all of His glory. It's unimaginable. It's beyond our mental capacity to foresee the greatness that will present itself to us on that day. Can you imagine how we will feel, complete? Total peace, joy, fullness. We will lack nothing. We will be in the presence of the Only One who knows us better than we know ourselves. I'm pretty excited about that. It's mind blowing, it absolutely floors me. My small, human, brain is not nearly complex enough to even imagine a small percentage of that day. The God who has planned the life of each, unique individual on this earth, from Adam to the humans living on the earth at the end, He will gather us to Him, and make us finally whole. Close your eyes and imagine that wholeness. Are you excited now?? Having gone through anxiety disorders and depression, imagining it all washed away is mind blowing! It's relieving. And yes, there are many things that I want to still do here. I want to get married. I want to touch many people for Christ I want to have kids and watch them grow. I want to go to villages where people have never heard the name of my Savior, to be a voice in great darkness. But God knows my dreams, and He also knows which of them will best fit in His plan and give Him glory. He wants me to have good things, but He also knows what I really need and what will be best for His kingdom in the end. So, whether I am single or spend the rest of my life in the states, God loves me, and He can't wait to make me whole one day. And He has some pretty incredible plans for my life. So, I will wait excitedly for the day when I meet my beautiful Savior, and for 24 days to end so that I can board a plane and be off to a beautiful country that I have missed with my whole being for over a year. I'M SO EXCITED!! :)