How Life Can Change

In my life, the only thing that is constant, is change.  From an early age I have had to learn to adapt.  During some of my most formative years, my family took in foster children; sometime 3 or 4 at a time!  Obviously this leads to people sharing sleeping quarters, bathrooms and many times, clothes.  With a decent sized family of 4 kids to start with, adapting to a couple more didn't seem difficult.  

Who says we all go through an awkward stage?

From Kindergarten to Senior year of high school I attended a total of 7 schools.  I think this is where I got my outgoing nature.  I am not a stranger to having to make new friends in a new place.  I don't know if this also attributed to my wandering nature or not, but it would certainly make sense.  Almost regularly, every couple of years (usually only one), I move.  I don't mean a small move like moving to a new apartment.  I am talking moving across the state, across the country, and now for the second time, across the world.  I have only taught at the same school for two years.  The rest of my seven years of teaching experience takes place at different schools, different districts, and many times different states.  

My need for change seems primal, inevitable.  Change is my security.

So when the calling to go to Spain came, a change in location was not foreign to me.  I don't mind traveling, I like new places, I crave change.  

The part that makes me uncomfortable is asking for help.  I remember one week in college when I lived in my car instead of asking anyone for help.  It is very difficult for me to ask anyone for anything.  I like to feel independent and I like to say I did it myself.  This is why God has placed this challenge before me.  Does he usually call someone to do something that seems easy?  No.  He knows how hard it was for me to turn my life to Jesus in the first place; because that meant asking for help.

And now I embark upon this amazing, yet frightening journey of fundraising.  So, here goes.......

Would anyone like to help?