Anyone who knows me will tell you I don't say "goodbye", so with only 11 days until I leave for Georgia I've had some problems. What is the best way to tell close friends and family "I'll message you as much as I can" but I don't know how often that will be, and "I'll be back soon" but soon means 11mo later? In fact, most of the questions people have for me lead to the same answer, "I don't know". Now if that was the case even a year ago I would have been a mess. I've always liked to at least know what that there's a general plan for what I'm doing, but in the last year God has really challenged me in that. Over and over again in my daily studies the same verses would come up, Philippians 4:6, Hebrews 13:6, Psalms 34:4, and Matthew 6:34. Every verse that came up would talk about peace or casting all worries away. And let me tell you brothers and sisters, a calmness has covered me that can only come from the Lord. There is no worry in my mind of where we will go or stay, no worries over who we will work with, no worries about the virus still prevalent in our world. Answering questions with "I don't know" now includes a smile, because I may not know, but God's got this. So I won't tell those I love "goodbye" before I leave, I'm just saying my "see ya laters"