January First

I feel stressed as I look into the New Year. I'm pretty sure that's not how I'm supposed to feel, but it is how I do feel.

I feel stressed because I don't know how long it will take to raise the needed funds to move. We've set our target departure date as early April. That means we need to buy our plane tickets. But of course we can't do that until we have the funds to do so. And the funds to buy the vehicle we need to order now to have shipped to TZ. And the funds to ship the motorcycles and the rest of the stuff we need for living there and getting around.

I think we are pretty good at this. We are pretty well trained in keeping it simple and only taking what we'll need, what makes better sense to bring from here. We don't demand that there be a lot in the "What we need" column.

But the questions and the unknowns feel heavy to me right now. Sometimes I think we're nuts to be venturing out into new paths again.

Sometimes.

Most times I feel confident in the Voice I hear calling us.

"Guide me, oh Thou Great Jehovah, pilgrim in this weary land."

God is not stressed by these things that are stressing me. He calmly opens the way in the right time. I need His peace in this between time. I need to trust his good guidance.

Today is the first day of 2007.

I choose trust.