April 8th

I really have not had a lot of time to be thinking and praying as much as I would like about this trip. This semester is my last semester at UNT and I am swamped 24/7 with assignments, student teaching, and trying to spend as much time as I can with people I might not see again. This trip has become just another thing on the list of my things to do.
I really don’t want to feel like that but it has.
Last week at the conversational club I was reminded afresh my purpose of going to Japan to in some way be a vessel of the living God to those in that Land. Japan is not an easy trip for me. It is so different for me culturally that I am already having intense cultural shock before I even go there. I really am praying that it will all be over by the time I actually arrive in Tokyo.
I was just reminded recently by my Mentor Teacher that God is not going to give more than I can handle. God is good and He will give me enough that I must depend on him but not enough that I will not succeed at what His will is. I am reminded anew that whatever God is going to do it is going to be good. His plans are not our plans and His ways are not mine.
My prayer is that through this trip the word of God would be reflected in the lives of the girls I come in contact with in Tokyo.
God, I just lift up every girl I will meet in Tokyo. I pray that it would be your leading. I pray that I would just be a vessel for what ever that girl needs at that time. I pray that I can show her your love and life through mine. Jesus, even though I might not be able to say a word I ask that you would smile through me, that you would pray through me, that your glory would be seen. Because this trip is not about me, not about my plans for the future, it’s about you and your plans. Please give me eyes to see this…