Everything seems ready to go...
The checklist is covered with ink, notes to self and don't-forget's. The bus is clean, fueled, the air-conditioning checked. Maps are current, all directions printed out... I guess we're ready!
The real question, however, is "ready for what?"
After months of planning, we are heading West! Twenty-three sojourners, stuffed into a bus, ready to roll up their sleeves for the sake of loving another culture! And though we travel to a destination - the Navajo Reservation - we have decided to not live to the destination, but rather in the destination. Opportunities abound all around us, chances to share our love for a broken world. Will we seize those opportunities? Or let them slide right past us?
Pray for us! Pray that we travel safe, travel well... but pray that we open our eyes to this world - whether it be the Navajo nation or the people we meet along the way. Pray that we learn to love each other, that we not just tolerate each other but eventually rejoice in our differences!
We will try to maintain this blog on a daily basis, as our journey takes us along the southern stretch of united States, from Marietta, Georgia to Dilkon, Arizona!
Keep watching, reading, praying!
God bless...
J.D.
