Wow! Only 30 more days and I'm getting on a plane to begin my about two day journey to South Africa! It seems so unreal! It's freaking me out a bit to be honest. It's not that I'm afraid to fly or afraid to go to South Africa, but the money thing. I have 34 days to raise about $650 (maybe more? not totally sure) plus money for insurance (that ranges about $50 to a lot more than that) and some spending money. And no, I don't need a ton of spending money but it would be nice! With the days flying by I'm getting a little worried. How in the world is this money going to come in? Where is it going to come from? I know I don't just have $650 sitting around. I barely have enough money to pay for expenses going on now, which by the way also have to be paid for while I'm gone (a good $300 of expenses, about). Oh Jesus! What's going to happen! So I guess this post is more of a rant than anything. I have two fundraisers coming up but who knows how those will go.
So, if your reading this, I ask you to pray! Pray that the money comes in. Pray about how you can help, about how you can have an impact on the South African people. Whether you can donate $5 or $500, I seriously ask you to pray about donating. Pray, diligently about what God has for you to do. By saying this I am in no way saying "God needs you to donate a bunch of money to me, NOW!!!" That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm just asking you to seek out God and see if He has you to donate. I know money is super tight for a lot of people, really, I do know this! So maybe your role of support is prayer. Then pray diligently! Pray with me over this!
I know that somehow this money will come in. I have no doubt that God will provide. It's just that right now, today, this week, this month, it's super hard to see where it will come from! It's hard to just have faith that God will provide when it's so close and it's just that little (well, little compared to where I started) bit! God will provide, I know this! Faith is just hard now. I guess thats why it's called faith and not......ok I can't think of a word to go in there, but I think you get it.
So this rant is over now because I need to get back to homework (only 1 1/2 weeks of school left!!!) But please, honestly seek God on this. Seriously and diligently pray over it! I love you guys so much and I am beyond blessed by all of you! I feel so blessed that people even read this and comment!
Trying to calm myself,
Joanna
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