Are you all prepared?

Are you all prepared? Are you ready to go? These have been the most frequently asked questions to me recently. It's hard to believe that, the Good Lord willing, I will be back on Ugandan soil in just over a month. It's approaching quickly and most the time I just wish I were there already. But this time of "waiting" for the departure date has good for my soul. And the more times I am asked those questions the more it has made me really examine and ask them of myself. Am I prepared? What else do I need to be doing? Am I ready to tackle the next 7 months? I like to think I am. But if we're being honest here, my answer to these questions is no. Big flat-out NO. It sounds strange maybe to say this when you'll be spending the next 7 months in another country apart from family, friends, and church family, and you say you're not ready to go. My challenge to these questions is; will we ever be prepared for big things? Are we able to be 100% prepar...