My summer is moving by so quickly that I feel it's all I can do to keep
up, let alone think about what's happening in three months. But here I am, with an hour or two of "free" time today, and I am thinking about it.
    I am going to Mexico. For nine months. With strangers. I am going to be away from my family and friends, I will not be working, and I have NO CLUE what I am supposed to be doing after I come home. Yet none of this scares me, even though so many people think it should. Why? Because my God is bigger than Mexico. My God has been faithful to me for my entire life (which happens to be much longer than nine months). My God can turn strangers into friends, and even into family. My God promises to provide for all my needs, which covers more than just financial issues. And My God is the author of my future, doing a much better job of it than I ever could.
    Faith that is placed in the character of God is never disappointed. That's something I've been learning lately. As a child of Christ, my faith is not to be in a place, a time, a human, a sense of security, money, or my own plans. That is not faith. That is "my own understanding", and Proverbs 3:5 says a little something about that. Rather, my faith is to be placed in the fact that God is who He says He is, and will do what is best for me in the right time, because He loves me. Praise God.