I am travelling and pre-writing these devotions – and right now (planning a Sunday release to this post) I should be in a the midst of the unknown feelings of known travel – and known fear but unknown fun – and known fun and unknown unknowns…

YES – for 9 days we are travelling with scouts – thanks for your prayers! Traveling with friends is always an adventure!

It is going to be a GREAT trip no doubt – it is going to be amazing as it can’t be anything but amazing… Every time I travel BIG – to another country – it is like as soon as I let go of that car door or realize it is just me and the suitcase and my passport and all reliant upon me going – well that is when I take that breath – whew – yeah this is really happening… And I can do this – I travel all the time – even out of the country – I do jump when I jump – and I am usually wearing my bracelet of this scripture: “I can do all things through Christ!” Phil 4:13

And so I was watching a recent video of an Eagle taking flight – the first flight from his parent’s nest – well, it matches my feelings right now in travelling (could be any new venture for us) – might be a wobble for a second and then GO. It is a feeling of both unknown and known newness – the whole world in in front of us – we feel both  – I feel both – both apprehension and excitement – either way it is TIME TO GO! Admire the view and then be part of it!

(These screenshots are images from this video – first the eagle looks then flaps his wings in prep – then goes: https://bbc.com/news/videos/cp3x257qkx9o  )

BUT ah we need to remember that we never go without God – as He is already in the place we are going as much as the place we are from and especially He is really REALLY with us when we are thinking of Him at that moment… At THIS moment Lord, thank you! You know me – You love me. (Psalm 139 for sure)

Yes, Lord, TIME TO GO – by car train plane boat and feet – well time to FEEL the Unknown and Keep Going!  Be Strong and Courageous !!! 

KNOWING GOD IS WITH US EVERY STEP!!!

AMEN

Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
    Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries misuse your name.
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.