Going to August Africa 2!

August 2nd? The date kept ringing in my head as I contemplated whether to book the flight or not.  This date was nearly 2 and a half months from the original date I expected to leave; May 25. And a whopping 4 months after I actually made the decision to go. How could it be that long, I asked my self.  Somehow my dream of leaving for Africa had been deferred longer than most people expected, but I am reluctant to declare that this isn't the way God wanted it to go. I find it impossible to say that God is frustrated with the timing.  No, simply I am the one who has been frustrated with this timing.  There have been millions of times in my life where the timing of something, simply isn't what I expected.  Making the decision to go to Africa wasn't easy, actually making the decision to go was easy, it was something that I wanted to do for sometime. But as the weeks progressed, and the uncertainty loomed about the timing of my departure my confidence in my decision decreased.  I found myself searching to see if this is what God wanted me to do? Did I really want to go to Africa? Because this timing is making it much more difficult than expected. This road which I was taking I knew was the road less traveled, but was it a bridge to far so to speak?  Was I going to be getting into much more than what I bargained for? The months of anticipation had me second guessing my mission. It reminded me of the first time you get up on the diving board, the more you think about it, the less you want to go.  I was watching this show on the History Channel called Expedition Africa, where these three skilled and knowledgeable Outdoors-men and Women travel through the most remote areas of Africa.  During the scene I was watching, this unfortunate stuff kept happening, and the lady was saying, well the trip was going as planned and then Africa happened.  Murphy's law states what could go wrong will go wrong, and that is simply the order of business in Africa it seems. Was I prepared for that? Most missionaries that work for God aren't exactly prepared for everything.  And that is exactly the mindset I have going into Africa. I may not be prepared for everything, but God has a plan for my life, and he always has a solution.