Leaving Tomorrow! – A sneak peak of week 1

Tour #2 begins tomorrow.

This is my nervous-excited face.

(The pit of my stomach is currently feeling a strange combination of terrified and ecstatic.) I’ll be trundling cross-country in my two-door Honda Civic brimming with books, CDs, coffee mugs, suitcases, a guitar, and my fabulous intern worship leader Jen. We’ll be traveling to approximately 25 states in three months, sharing “The Insatiable Quest for Beauty Seminar” at churches, colleges, and high schools. On this tour we’re hitting up the south and west coasts during the cold months, then heading to the north and midwest during April.

I’m also super excited to visit states like Seattle and Oregon where I’ve never been before! And to visit national parks like Yosemite, Redwoods, Badlands, Mammoth Caves, and Grand Canyon. I love Psalm 104:24 in the Message: “What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all…” — and now we get to explore it!

I’m praying that on this tour, Jen and I would walk in the unforced rhythms of grace (as The MSG subtitles Matthew 11). That there would be an effortless flow of His grace over us as we minister — that we could walk in the rest and power that comes not by might, not by power, but by His Spirit alone.

We would love your prayers as we fit three months into our duffel bags, and start touring tomorrow!

Here is week one’s agenda:

Bursting with Excitement for Tour #2!!!

I can scarcely contain myself sometimes…

This is how I feel today.

I could jump and laugh and holler! (I know, who says holler anymore? I do!)

How can I begin to express my excitement for Tour #2, The Insatiable Quest for Beauty’s Spring 2014 cross-country tour??? I feel about to burst with anticipation, and it’s still four months away!!

I’ve got my intern worship leader picked out and she’s 95% positive she’s going with me (watch for that news to be released soon). She’s SUPER awesome; I’m SO excited to travel with her. Not only will we have a ton of fun, but I wholly believe this is a divine appointment for her, and that God has some crazy stuff planned. I’m pretty much as (or more) excited about what He’s going to do in her life as I am about the rest of the tour combined!!

And then my new Booking and Communications Coordinator Joanna is doing SUCH an amazing job, it’s blowing my mind! God’s favor is so over this. We’re just about done booking five of the cities, and so far it’s looking like we’ll have 2-3 events per day in each city. I’ve set aside some days for rest and travel, but for the most part…it’s going to be a much fuller tour than last time. And I will have nothing I’m working on besides speaking and ministering, because Joanna can be back home booking the summer’s events while I’m on the road. YES!!!

Every time an email comes in with a “yes we want you to speak here,” I get so excited!! It’s moments like this when I’m like, “Ah, God, you’re all over this aren’t you??” I remember yet again that He’s known about this since forever, that He’s been setting this up since before I had a clue. I’m so eternally thankful, and so crazy excited to go on this adventure with Him!