self-less. love-more.

In our worship tonight Tyler talked about God's love and how we have the opportunity to live that out and in to these precious children. He also talked about what it's going to mean to love each other during these two weeks--because Lord knows there will be times when we don't feel like it. And as we talked about it more we decided that what we really want, what we really need, is to forget self. We are selfish, prideful beings--but if we could just dig out of that and understand that our mission here is to love and love big--we could really do something extraordinary. So through that conversation our theme for these two weeks has become "self-LESS. love-MORE". I'll be honest and say that I've already used it to calm my pride once tonight--I'm sure I'll think it many more times before this trip is done.

Speaking of the trip, it's really about to start. We fly out at 6am this morning and are leaving for the airport in about ten minutes. Well, Jessi, Chris, Tyler and I are flying out. Nick has a later flight and meets Ben in San Francisco to travel with him the rest of the way. All of our stuff is packed, weighed, and ready to get loaded in the car. We're hoping customs doesn't raise too many eyebrows at the bags of pipe-cleaner, feathers, mini percussion instruments, glue, etc. that we've packed for two weeks of fun with these kids.

Anyway, people are starting to move out there so I better go. Keep us in your prayers if you think about it... and we'll be updating this as often as we can.

It's India time my friends!

-Tara