BROKEN

My heart breaks for these kids! And to know that there are millions more just like them kills me!! Please pray for all the orphaned and abandoned.

Update on things...

It has been a very long time since I have posted. If you have read my earlier posts you may remember my talking about going to Africa. Well, my original plan had been that I would go to Uganda during my spring break and help Katie Davis, this amazing twenty-year-old that God put in my life. I’m not really sure how this happened, other than it being God’s plan, but a big group got together and planned their trip to help Katie during spring break, not knowing my plans. Things got overwhelming and now I am not going during spring break. When I was first told the news, my heart shattered into a million pieces. Immediately I started getting frustrated with God and for a few weeks, I was asking Him, “Why are you doing this to me? You know this is where my heart is! Why would you take this from me? I thought this was Your plan!” Well, it has taken a lot of conversations with God, but I am at the point where I have been broken and realized maybe this was all my plans. I know that God has a time for me to go and has a perfect plan for my future. Right now I am praying that His timing will be shown to me. I have ideas of when I can go – the week after spring break or sometime in May – but I am trusting and waiting for God’s PERFECT timing.
I feel like my relationship with God has gotten closer and stronger. I have realized that my life has no meaning without Him and that He is in control. If I were in complete control of my life there is no telling where I would be. God has shown me that He is the only one who knows what my future holds. I have learned that thanking Him continuously strengthens the relationship we have. I thank Him daily for the plan He has for my life and the plan He has for my trip to Africa. I also thank Him for His answers to my prayers even if they don’t turn out to be the answers I was looking for. In doing this I have felt our relationship grow. I know that He is working for my good and that He will never lead me the wrong way.
Please be praying with me that I will trust God with my trip to Africa and that He will show me His perfect plan. Also be praying for me to find out if I need to have a travel companion and if so who that might be. Another thing to be praying about is for Katie and her children.