So here’s the long overdue recap of my fund raising trip down to North Palm Beach and Lakeland last month, as well as some of the events since then. I know it’s been over a month since I’ve last blogged. The week after that trip was an emotional roller coaster. I felt depressed, jealous and bitter a good bit of the week, and when I get that way I don’t do a lot of things I enjoy, hence my lack of blogging despite having more than my fair share of time on my hands. Since the end of that week, as you’ll infer, I’ve been very busy and haven’t had any time on my hands, hence my lack of blogging.
I left for North Palm later than I hoped on the morning of Thursday, August 16. I was going there to make a final fund raising trip to raise support for my ministry with the Navigators at FSU. When I left I was at 40% of my funding goal and couldn’t start working until I hit at least 75%. It’s a six hour drive down, not nearly as long as I remembered it being. When I left I really didn’t know why I was going. A part of me felt like it was going to be just like my Connecticut trip all over again. When I left for that trip I didn’t have too many face-to-face fund raising appointments made before arriving and I ended up not having many during the trip. The same could be said for this trip (though, once again, not for lack of trying). Many people were out of town or otherwise unavailable. Many I just hadn’t managed to talk to; I could only get their message machines. But I had a lot of peace about making the trip. I’ve learned to trust that feeling of peace a lot more in recent months. There’s something to it.
