Gratitude

Here we are a few hours from our flights out. We are heading off with a great sense of gratitude. When this opportunity first presented itself, I wondered how we would raise the $9600 it would take to make the trip possible. Then about a month ago we got shots and the cost was significantly more than we expected. Yet, the money has come. Even in excess of our projected budget, covering the unexpected health costs.

What is amazing is not that that the money has come, but that I wondered that it might. Somehow money seems to be outside of God's realm. Money is what this world runs by, so I fall into the trap of thinking that finances are secular. If all has been redeemed by the work of Christ on the cross, this includes things monetary.

Thank you to all individuals who generously gave to make this trip possible. I also want to thank the organizations who helped out especially to Virginia Theological Seminary's COIP grant, the Evangelical Episcopal Society, Church of the Spirit, and Little Trinity Church.