committed...

Yesterday I took a deep breath, said a prayer and clicked. In other words, I BOUGHT MY PLANE TICKET!!!  Even though all I really have to show for it at this point is an email in my inbox, I am beginning to feel the gravity of this decision.  It's done.  I'm committed. And by God's grace, I will be on a plane from Pellston, MI to Lima, Peru at 6 a.m. on May 18, 2011!  I typically wouldn't fly out of Pellston because it is usually exponentially more expensive than Detroit, but I was lucky (though I personally think luck had nothing to do with it) to find a rare price on a flight out of Pellston, which will be so much more convenient and might even give me a chance to say goodbye to some of you in the upper Michigan area...if you're a morning person, that is.  This definitive step forward feels so monumental to me; now I just have to keep reminding myself to slow down and make the most of the next 84 days.