And I purchased my plane ticket last week and I am leaving June 30th! I cannot believe how soon that it. Also as a fundraising update, I have $300 dollars raised so far just from a Facebook post. Now that finals and Graduation are over I can really focus on fundraising big time. Thank you to everyone who has donated!
If you’d like to donate, here is the link! http://www.amigosdejesus.org/how-to-help/make-a-donation.html. After the primary page, click “review and continue” and on the following page there should be a small line that says “special instructions” here you can just say for Meg Ryan or something of that sort so that the money goes directly to the funds I am raising rather than a general pool. If you have any questions or concerns please email me at mryan@anselm.edu!!
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I looked up the weather in Santa Barbara, Honduras today and it is currently in the 80’s with a little rain. I have a feeling it will be a hot summer down there but I can’t say that I won’t love it (especially after spending the winter in NH for the last 4 years.) Today is the first day I’ve had the opportunity to really sit and think about what the next year will be like. Since returning from school a lot of people have been asking me what I plan to do for the next year or “what’s with this honduras thing” and unlike at school a lot of people can’t even begin to fathom why I would want to spend the next 14 months in another country, especially Honduras, not “getting paid!” It’s hard to put into words why I want to do this, without boring them the long and detailed history of what brought me to this point in life.
But besides looking up the weather in Honduras, today I also found a quote. And it helps put into words how I feel about choosing to spend the next year doing service. “A ship is safe in a harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” I feel like my whole life has been leading up to this moment and to this journey. It has taken 22 years to build me into the person I am and it is time to set sail and to do what I feel I am best at, and that it serving others and working in the image of God in the only way I know how and to the best of my ability. So now when people ask me I’ll do my best to explain but when words fail, I will simply say it’s what I was built for.