Firsts

Exciting times ahead...

In less than 24 hours our team will be traveling together to Jamaica and I couldn't be more excited. Sure, there are a bunch of questions floating through my head as there are with most new experiences, but I have so much confidence in our team leader who has been a huge source of support and anxiety-reducing calm today, that I can't help but to be completely grateful for this opportunity. 

This will be a week of many firsts for me: first Mustard Seed mission, first time to Jamaica, first time meeting most of my team mates, and first time writing a blog!

I don't know what to expect, but I am really excited about meeting the kids, learning about what we can do to help and affect positive change in a community that right now, from my cushy office in Manhattan, seems like it couldn't be farther away from me. I'm sitting here, looking over our office's "zen garden courtyard" trying to imagine what the upcoming seven days will be like. If it's anything like what I'm thinking, I have a feeling that while I like to think I'll be doing "so much" for these kids in Jamaica, I am pretty sure that they will probably be the ones teaching me so much, enriching my life with rich experience, compassion, and humble joy. It always amazes me how grateful and generous complete strangers can be just because they know we are there for them and they are not alone.

Ultimately, they have no idea the change they are impacting in our hearts and minds as volunteers. I am the lucky one.

-Libby (1st Year)