Sleeping in the prayer chapel

So now I have been in the London airport for 7.5 hours and I have to admit, though it is a large airport, I'm sort of bored. I don't want to spend too much time sitting down in a chair reading or people watching because I know that in only a few hours I will be sitting and fidgeting in a chair for 10 hours. So I have been wandering around terminal 4 looking at the shops and the goings-on of the airport. I did discover a prayer chapel and quiet sitting room that has bed-like chairs in them- perfect for sleeping. I had a great little nap until I was woken up by a little child shrieking and mother shushing quite loudly and the child pounding with its two fists on the door. Not the best way to wake up but a satisfying nap nonetheless.

So my impressions of London is that people are very polite here (I appreciate that) and that driving on the other side of the road is crazy! So I knew that people in Great Britian drove on the other side of the road but after a long, long flight I had sort of forgotten. I was quiet suprised and I'm sure I audibly gasped when the bus I was taking from Terminal 5 to Terminal 4 started off driving in the "wrong" lane. That's a way to wake you up!

Tomorrow I arrive in Dar and start working shortly thereafter. I have to disclose that I had a little freak out, panic moment on the airplane, thinking to myself "what in the world am I doing!? this is crazy!" I'm sure that if at that moment I could have been on the phone with the pilot, I would have said "turn around. It doesn't matter that we are halfway over the ocean, turn around and drop me off at Southwest Florida International Airport..... please (you have to add the please for politeness sake)!" But then I calmed myself down thinking that if so many friends and family have faith in me that I can do this, then maybe I can do this (and it would have been impossible for me to get the pilot to turn around...).

I have no doubts that this is going to be difficult and I will have moments when I want nothing more than to be around people and things that are familiar but I can do this. I can do it because for the past few weeks or so whenever the voice of doubt started to fill my head, another voice overpowers the first voice saying "the grace I have bestowed upon you in baptism is sufficient." God's grace is sufficient and amazing and keeps me going when I want to curl up in a ball of worry. It doesn't matter if I doubt myself because my friends and family don't doubt me and God never doubts me. So in that, I have the strength and courage to keep going on this crazy adventure!

I should sleep in prayer chapels more often. They bring me clarity. :)

namaste!

PS- it's raining now, just fyi.
PPS- Mom, I remembered to take the malaria medicine today! :-)
PPS- Mom, Dad, Kristina and Lauren- I miss you all already. Kristina, have a great time in NYC! Catch a ball for me and be sweet! Mom and Dad, drive carefully up to Tallahassee. It's a holiday weekend and you know how people can be. ;) Lauren, congratulations on moving in to your new apartment! You have no idea how proud of you I am and I can't wait to stay there when I drive back to school!