Matthew 19:21

"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven. Then, come, follow me." Matthew 19:21

"In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples." Luke 14:33

"Sell your possessions, and give to the needy."

"As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy." 1 Timothy 6:17

"Also, I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Hear I am, send me." Isaiah 6:8

Could you do it?

That is the challenge I have heard from God in regards to this crazy call we have both heard. Can I mean what I have said, what I have prayed, since the day I gave him my heart? Here I am. Send Me.
The moment I was called into the kingdom of God, I have felt the pull to go.
Go.
Where? I have no idea.
In the beginning it was Africa. Then Mexico. Then, back home to North Carolina, where I planted my feet in cement and started a life. I don't know when I decided to stay, but much of it was surrounded by first finding love, then passion for a career, and then starting a family. I never meant to stay. I have always lifted my hands up to Him and promised I would go wherever he would send me. But the longer my feet have been planted, the less I have been able to find time for Him.
So when my husband asked me if I would ever pack up our young family, into a tiny box, and Go... sell all the things that tie my feet down, the possibility felt like the first breath of fresh air I have received in 10 years.
All along, I could have been doing it here. But Im not. Here, I suffocate. I try, and try, to generate the passionate love I have for God when I am out, under the stars, away from this American Nightmare of mundane tasking, but oh how alive it feels to be out.
We will still be working, we will still be tied down to some responsibilities, but how much lighter the burden.

You might not get it. But its like the sudden relief you feel right after delivering a child, where all the pressure and pain is faded into the background as you gaze into the life before you. All the beauty, all the possibility. Oh yes, the road will be hard, but it will be so worth the journey!