To think that there is only 13 days until I leave, lil ol' Minot, ND. It wasn't too long ago that I was accepted, this is CRAZY!
"Crazy" that's a word that is being dropped all over the place lately.
After I first got accepted to this trip & I started telling people about it, one of my friends I've known for a long time called me crazy. His exact words, "You've always been crazy. However, instead of being crazy stupid, like you were before, you're crazy on fire for God."
A couple nights ago, I was hanging out with some people I had just met. I started telling them about my trip, and as I told them about how simple I'd be living I remember one of them saying, "Girl, you're crazy."
As I sit here about to start packing the next 4 months of my life into 1 bag, it think, So Maybe I'm Crazy! But I remember note I got in my box at camp last summer.
"We need some crazy Christians. Sane, sanitized Christianity is killing us. That may have worked once upon a time, but it won’t carry the Gospel anymore. We need some crazy Christians like Mary Magdalene and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Christians crazy enough to believe that God is real and that Jesus lives. Crazy enough to follow the radical way of the Gospel. Crazy enough to believe that the love of God is greater than all the powers of evil and death. Crazy enough to believe, as Dr. King often said, that though “the moral arc of the universe is long, it bends toward justice.” We need some Christians crazy enough to believe that children don’t have to go to bed hungry; that the world doesn’t have to be the way it often seems to be; that there is a way to lay down our swords and shields, down by the riverside; that as the slaves used to sing, “There's plenty good room in my Father's kingdom,” because every human being has been created in the image of God, and we are all equally children of God and meant to be treated as such."
I'm crazy enough to follow God's call halfway across the world. To a place I've never been before, with people I've never met before. I'm crazy enough to believe, that me and my team can make a difference.
So, Maybe I'm Crazy.
