Skills

I'm talking to Pastor Banuel the other day, trying to gather some more details about where I'll be spending the next 6 months. He asks me if I can cook. My mind immediately goes to envisioning myself trying to cook curry for 50 children in an orphanage. Now, I know from visiting India in '08 that I need to be prepared to use all kinds of skills, but this is really stretching it, especially because I have no clue how to cook anything Indian. In a panicked voice I answer yes, but quickly explain that I can't cook Indian food.
"No problem, I was just wondering so you can cook for yourself in the house you will be living in."
I seriously breathe a sigh of relief.
I know this trip will stretch me in ways I've never been stretched before, requiring me to heavily rely on Jesus for the many, "I don't know what in the world I'm doing" moments. Praise God it doesn't look like one of those moments will be cooking in an orphanage! (Watch that actually happen now). But I know I will end up teaching classes I don't know how to teach, comforting children and women I don't know how to comfort, speaking a language I don't know how to speak, even wearing clothes I don't know how to wear. Yay for saris! And I'm excited for all of those moments because it can't help but make Jesus bigger. "But he said to me, 'My grace is suffient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9.
Please pray that as I prepare to leave for this adventure in 4 days that I will even now begin to let His power fill my weakness. And that I'll even boast in that weakness for His sake.
And for fun, here is a video of a random skill (talent?) that I used in India last time I was there.