To touch the world....

In 14 days, I leave for a 10 day mission trip in Haiti. We are going to be working at a medical clinic in Grand Goave, and building a house for the natives. Our group is made of 27 team members, young and old. It's bound to be an eye-opening and life-changing trip.

We will get back on a late Wednesday night/early thursday morning... and Thursday morning I move in to college to begin that new adventure. Not much time to transition.

I've been told many times that my life is about to drastically change. That it will never be the same. Once I start college, my life will look completely different.

Change.

It can be a frightening word for anybody. Everybody experiences change. "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal"--Arthur Schopenhauer. It's very easy to settle with what I have right now, and not want to go beyond.

But at the same time, there is something so exciting and enticing about going beyond! "Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."-- Harry Emerson Fosdick.

Why should I fear change? Change doesn't always precede something bad or worse. "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."-- Gail Sheehy. I want to really live. I want to be the change that makes somebody's day a better day. I want to make a difference.

I'm going to Haiti, and then I'm off to college. This seems like the perfect opportunity for me to touch the world, and to really live. To live with purpose, the purpose which my Father above has created me with.

I'm ready for change. I love my life right now. I am so grateful for the many blessings that I've been surrounded by my whole life. I believe that if I let God handle this change, it can only make my life all the better.

Change.

It can be a frightening word for anybody. But I am so excited :)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."-- Mohandas Gandhi