the next month's "to-do" list

so i got it. i got the internship. i'm going to be working in san diego in the invisible children office for five months starting in august. its a lot different than what i thought it would be. i was thinking that i would a roadie, spending a month or so in the office and taking off for a two and a half month road trip. but turns out, God has a better plan. His plan is always better.

so i'll be in san diego for the entire 5 months, living in the intern house, going to work everyday, turning 21, and living life as a employee of invisible children. i never thought it would happen. but i feel like no one that works for them ever does.

i talked to tiffany keasey today for a good while and she basically gave me a run down of what this next month needs to look like, things she needs from me and how to go about getting to san diego. i got so overwhelmed and excited i got dizzy. it was so weird. so i immediately pull out a piece of paper and started making my to-do list. here it is:

starting july 8 and ending hopefully aug. 1

TO-DO

1. check on my exams, make sure i can take them early
2. buy plane ticket
3. get package from office and evaluate
4. sell car
5. move out of my apartment
6. find a place to put all my stuff while i am gone
7. send flight itinerary to lacey in the office
8. go over job description and prepare
9. visit adviser and ask about school credit, money/scholarship, and transfer to business school
10. message all known interns
11. maybe cancel classes/ sign up for internship class
12. check on loans
13. check on health insurance
14. calculate spending
15. start getting rid of stuff/ OWN LESS
    
16. talk all this over with my mom
17. call bryant and find out what he wants of my stuff
    
18. make a pile of crap i don't want/can't sell and let ginna or anyone else go through it.
19. find out how to get $700-900
    

so this is what i have to do. and its a lot.
but at the end of my list this is what i wrote in really large letters.

"GOD IS THE PLAN. if things on this list don't go as well as you hoped or don't go at all, DO NOT LOSE HEART. this is for Him, not for you. He will make it work."

then i wrote at the top "PRAYER: Keep HIM in mind always."

see, minus three or four things this isn't a list of things that has to be done. this is stuff that will make it easier for me to go. and if they don't work out or become a huge struggle then it is in HIS plan that i work harder for this, that i skip a few meals while i'm there, that i really feel the weight of leaving to do this.

i don't know maybe i'm being overly dramatic. but as soon as we got a break in class i rushed to the bathroom to pray out loud for, not the things on this list to go well or to happen, but for THE LORD'S WILL. i want this semester to be about Him changing me, not about me leading the show. so i prayed for it. please pray for that too.


add-on: i just found out that the stipend that i knew would be given to us for food is coming from support we raise. we are told we need between 1500-2000. since i just raised support for uganda i won't be able really to do it the same way. this comes back to #4, #14, #15, #19.
and to add to the Lord's humor in all of this, i found out about 20 minutes after i bought my plane ticket.

no turning back now!!