SPS Bound...

On Monday evening, I got to spend time with Emma and Ben! It was wonderful getting to catch up with them and hear some of their stories from their adventures this summer.

As they were asking about my travel plans, I realized I didn't know where I would be sleeping on Wednesday night.

Now that the day is here, Luke 9:58 has been rattling around in my brain all morning: "Jesus replied, 'Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'"

Now, I'm sure I will have a place to sleep tonight, but it's just an odd feeling not to know what kind of accommodations they will be. I think up til now in my life, I've always had at least an idea of what the plan was for the night. "We'll find a hotel along the highway," or "you kids will lay down on the seats and sleep while Dad drives," or "I may go home, but if I get too tired, I'll just crash here." Anything I can come up with for tonight is only a wild guess. After the MCCers pick us up at the airport, are they taking us to a guest house? The Mennonite Church? Our host families' homes? (I don't have any info about them yet, either.) Are we couch surfing at the Reps' apartment? Will our Spirit Airlines flight be so delayed that we just end up "sleeping" on the plane? We'll see!

So far, the lead-up to my SALT term has been an exercise in moving forward without all the information I'd like to have. For example, a travel question I would have liked to have had the answer to back in early July (and would have, had I been the one booking) was not answered until a couple days ago here at orientation. Of course, MCC has sent service workers to Honduras many times before so everything was in order, but I didn't technically need to know about it until recently. It's good practice, I think, to stop trying to have control over so much, whether it's letting go to let MCC take care of me now or, during my assignment, trusting that God is working with me to accomplish end goals I might not be able to see at the time.