The Day Family Blog

Two weeks from today (May 29) we will be leaving on a plane headed for Cambodia! For those who are interested, we will be flying to Houston, Texas on United Airlines, then we will be heading to Singapore on Singapore Airlines (with a stop in Moscow for gas, we think), then we arrive to Phnom Penh, Cambodia at 8:40 a.m. on May 31.  It is really hard for me to even believe that I will be half way across the world so soon. Josh and I have both never been out of the country before, so we are going to be embarking on quite the adventure. Prayers for safety and good communication between the two of us would be awesome! My friend, Carrie, is living in Phnom Penh right now and it is so fun to go through all of her pictures of Cambodia. For so long, picturing myself in my friends photos has merely been me dreaming of going abroad someday. But it is really happening!  It is also hard to know how to prepare for a trip like this. In a way there is no way to prepare, but to pray. Prayin...

For those of you who haven't heard yet, we have reached our goal of $10,000!!! It is still hard for me to believe. When we first calculated this as our budget in January, there were some doubts in my mind. Though I had doubts, I chose to trust in God to provide. It would have been easy to doubt because that is our fallback. Our natural response as humans is to hesitate to trust in God, to put our faith into anything but Him. But we have a choice, we can choose to trust in the Lord even when there are doubts coming from within you and even from your closest friends and family. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, "God Provides, Always" even if God did not provide the $10,000 for our trip, He is still good, He still has plans, they just might be different than we were expecting, which would have been okay. But the Lord does love to give gifts to His children (Matthew 7:11, " If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will ...