One Week!

One week left! Today I started packing, and I have to say that is is harder than I thought having to decide which things I take and which things I leave behind! I want to take a few photos of the family and of friends, but there is no room; a prayer book, but it weighs too much; my Bible that I write in, and jot all over, but it is simply too big! So... I'm down to clothes and a hymn book! Great! Today I said a number of times: 'why am I doing this, I don't want to do this, I'd rather stay here?'

I am forgetting my own sermon which I preached a few weeks ago. St Paul reminds us in Corinthians: ‘Though he was rich, yet your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.’ There is a lot more to life that just the 'stuff' we have. Jesus gave up everything for me, and it really doesn't hurt for me to give up a few things for Him, to do His will... he says in Mark, 'don't be afraid, just believe. Now go in faith.'

Today I begun to learn the simplest of all things, but yet the most hardest: 'don't be afraid, just believe.' Philippians 4: 12-13: I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything, with the help of Christ, who gives me strength!