9 days...

In 9 days I will get on a plane again....

In 9 days I will travel with 9 other people across the world....

In 9 days I will have to open my heart again....

In 9 days I will be unsettled, unnerved, and uncomfortable....

In 9 days I will leave all the comforts of my home, my job, my friends, my family, my faith....

In 9 days I will trust this is the journey I need to be on...

In 9 days I will trust the 9 people I am traveling with to touch lives we don't know, we don't understand, we can't fix.

We will be on a journey together to open our hearts, to be His hands, to care and nurture those who have never felt the comfort of His precious touch, and to love those who have never been loved. We will love them without walls...without expectations...we will love them unconditionally.

It is amazing to walk into a world of unknown and have so many feelings....so many feelings words can't describe...there are no words that can explain the gifts we will receive in 9 days. We receive more gifts than we can possibly give....yet, our Indian brothers and sisters think we have sacrificed and blessed them a million times over. Amazing, isn't it?

It's amazing how I thought it would be different this year since I have been to India before...but it's not. It's all the same. It's hard because I am starting to get settled, I have a foundation, but now, I am going into the unknown again. I will be unsettled in my faith, again. I will be unsettled in my foundation, again. Why would I do this all over again? I ask myself every day....I don't know. I just know I'm supposed to go....