Reality has hit...I turned in my Bible this morning to realize that tomorrows date is the day I have been working and planning for since December.  All of the plans go into action tomorrow at 4pm as Summersville Baptist Youth pack two vans and take off toward Manassas, VA where we will spend a night in a hotel before flying to San Jose, Costa Rica for 10 days.  Although the tools are packed, the projects outlined, and the itinerary prepared, I am not sure what to expect.  I am first excited to introduce 20 youth and leaders to short term mission work and to watch them grow as they experience God through this experience.  Second, I am excited to partner with JD Reed before he heads to Bolivia, and to help with a local church and orphanage.  I am, third, excited to return to the place where I believe God laid the initial seeds that grew into a commitment of full time ministry when I was a teenager.  But overall, I'm not sure what to expect.  I read this morning in Acts 8 when God led Philip to an Ethiopian in a chariot.  In my mind I picture Philip thinking to himself "I'm not sure why I'm chasing this chariot, but we'll see what God has in store" and then as he's running beside the chariot he overhears scripture being read out loud.  When  he hears this and gets the opportunity of explaining the passage from Isaiah to the Ethiopian and realizes that God put him there to change a mans life.  My hope as we travel to Costa Rica is that we show up at the right place and time and God uses us in powerful ways.  I know we have been called there for a purpose and I am most excited as we embark on this journey to discover how God will use us.  Psalm 130:5 says "I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope."  I with the Psalmist can say, I wait with hope and anticipation to be used for your glory, God!