I was going to be so good and write every month at least! Ha! Three months later….. Summer was crazy, as I’m sure is the case for most people. I just honestly couldn’t be bothered to slow down and write more than a very short update email maybe twice in those summer months.
I was though going to write about the garage sale my parents did as a fundraiser for me, and how really amazing that was. Like for example these neighbors I met for the first time, that bought our canoe from us, and the total God moment that inspired when they found out all the money made from the garage sale was going to getting me to Ireland.
Or I was going to write about….. I can't even remember, but I'm sure it was going to be profound! That's what I get for not blogging.
I didn’t even bother to write about actually making 100% with both my one time and also with my monthly. (Kind of a big deal!) The really amazing part with that was my deadline for reaching 100% with my monthly was August 1st. I was like at 98%… not there, but close enough that I wasn’t worried about not being able to leave the 1st of September. I happened to be talking to my brother the evening of the 1st, and he asked where I was support wise, I told him I was about $40 a month from reaching my goal. He immediately responded that he could do that. 100% on the 1st!! Someone once encouraged me with “God loves a cliff hanger”. Seriously, it’s true.
The past 3 months I think have been my favorite months of the support raising journey. The first month, June, was working through why God had not opened the door for me to go to Ireland by June 1. Then figuring out what I was supposed to be doing for the summer. And struggling with would I even make the new support deadline in 3 months! But the end of June, beginning of July I’d really gotten in the swing of support raising, close enough that it was easier to tell (/ask) people “Just 8 people at $100/month!” then “just 8 people at $50/month!”
Confession, by the middle of July when I started closing in on my deadline, I started freaking out a little about what if I didn’t want to actually go?! What was so wrong with staying in Huntsville? Living a normal life…. Then just as strangely as that was; by the middle of August, I was totally ready to go! Had checked out, mentally. Packing my room, I thought I’d get super emotional and sentimental. I was so excited!! I’ve seen all 4 of my siblings leave. Every fall, all these college freshman leave…. Finally it’s my turn to leave!! Through the whole crazy month of August of wrapping things up, talking to the bank, talking to the insurance, getting a will and a POA, going to the doctor’s, getting a new laptop and figuring out my phone situation, I was never once stressed! Someone explained to me that was called peace. As soon as she said that I realized that was exactly what it was! I can’t really explain it, this peace that surpasses all understanding just engulfing me! Knowing this was exactly where God wanted me, doing exactly what He wanted me to be doing. With that came such joy!! I was probably the most annoying person to be around that last month. Beaming like an idiot! Almost literally almost bouncing off the walls!
Final reflection on support raising. Even though my goal was to reach 100% by the 1st of May, and I did all that I could, and still didn't make it. With that came confusion. But then when I did make it, it was very obvious that it was God’s timing, and His timing is perfect! His plans are not mans plans, His ways, not mans ways….
They found out all the money made from the garage sale was going to getting me to Ireland.kitchen knives
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