Packing Checklist

I finished packing today. What a relief!

I had a list that the study abroad office gave me with tips on what to bring and what not to bring, but it was still hard to think about what the heck I'm going to need in a different country for 3 and a half months. I also have to travel light, so that was a challenge.

It's pretty amazing though how much stuff we accumulate over the course of time and how our minds are always longing for more. I packed just a couple jeans and some t-shirts, 2 dresses, and 3 sweaters. I leave behind a closet full of clothes and like 4 drawers still full of t shirts and jeans. One of the many things I'm hoping to get out of this trip is a new mindset about my lifestyle. I feel like I get too caught up on material things and I'm constantly surrounded with media....I just want to get away and breathe. I just want to have enough and only enough, not an overload of abundance. I just want to know that God is enough to help me through the day. I just want to realize that God is all I need to check off my packing checklist (haha cheesy way to end it, I know).

So it's with 1 suitcase, 1 duffel bag, and 1 messenger bag that I head off and say hello world....the wonders of Africa are at my fingertips and I'm so ready to dive in.