We have spent a couple weeks industriously preparing for our Fall semester and now we're almost there! Students arrive in just two days now- crazy. Though there has been a great deal to accomplish, its been less like a wild trail run and more like intently traveling a decently paved road. I really believe that God has supplied our team (I know certainly myself) with an abundant grace and empowerment for the task at hand- thus the impression of our way being paved. Its been a great blessing to sense His resources welling up from inside me during this pressing stretch of the road. And now we are almost there.
Haha. Of course, there is actually just the beginning, isn't it?
Like five years ago, when I was in Nepal: we left Kathmandu in a minibus to drive for hours along fearsome mountain roads to arrive at our destination- the drop off point for a six day trek in the foothills of the Annapurna range! The end of the road is only the beginning of the adventure.
We are coming to the end of the steep prep road and have sensed the grace of God in the pressing points of the journey- we are almost there. Now we embark on the real adventure of the school itself, stepping into it with confidence that the God who supplied grace when we were pressed will surely carry us when the trek becomes even more demanding and endurance is called for.
This picture is of a road heading up toward the West Maui mountains. It pictures well a smoothly paved road with a greater adventure rising before it...
