Hakuna Matata: It means no worries.

I can't believe that I am leaving in one month! I am still in shock that God has provided me with this incredible opportunity to go to China this summer. There is one thing still standing in my way though. I still have a significant amount of money to raise and I have to have it by Friday. I know that God will provide the money, but I am human and have an incredible tendency to worry. For the past few years, I am often drawn to this passage in the Bible:

"So I tell you, don't worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
"And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don't have so little faith! Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' The people who don't know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34

I spend so much of my time worrying, in fact over the past few weeks, I have made my self physically sick with worry. I try so desperately to have control over everything in my life that I can barely handle it when things don't go as I planned. This is so not the life that God has destined for me. He wants me to lay all of this worry on him because he has a way better plan for me than I do. Never in my life would I have guessed that God would put a fire in my heart for the orphans in China. I would have never told you that I would have a desperate desire to travel there. There is no other explanation but God. This is why I am confident that He will get me there. No amount of money is bigger than God! He provides for all of my needs.

Please pray for me and the rest of our team as we are raising our last support dollars. Pray that we don't let any worries get in the way of what God has in store.