Am I Ready?

So I'm leaving for Africa Saturday, and like any good traveler, I'm going to try to post to this blog daily. Internet access is an unknown, so we'll just have to see.

I'm going to visit and photograph/video six orphanages that our church supports. While I know about what to expect, I'm not sure what I will see will do to me. If I expect to have a life changing experience and I don't, will I be disappointed? will I want to stay? will I want to become a missionary? to work with orphanages? Will I never want to see Africa again?

Worse, will I feel nothing and come back with just pictures?

God knows. I will have to wait to find out.

In yesterday's TAWG reading, I read this:

When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are full of blood;

wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,

learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.

When God says he speaks to you through the scriptures, He wasn't being figurative.