I needed this chapter

I needed this chapter four "The Whole of Our Lives: A Living Sacrifice". We are leaving Saturday to go to Mexico City to help do a Vacation Bible School with Chuck & Karla Topp's church next week. I have to be honest. There's a good bit of dread - just like getting ready to go through labor and delivery after your first one. On your next baby's labor & delivery you know what you're facing. And I'm just self-centered enough to not look forward to getting a night's sleep for an entire week and working long, hard hours everyday on concrete floors. Trying to function without the language, being so embarrassed because my Spanish is basically gone, but all the while catching some of what I'm hearing and getting a headache from trying to make sense of it. Poor Bonnie!! Then, I look at this chapter and read about sacrifices pleasing to God, and when she said on p. 99 "That's when I need to take a trip to Calvary and look into the eyes of a bleeding God who gave everything to reconcile me to Himself. That is why the apostle paul says, 'I urge you ... in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices ... this is your reasonable act of worship.' Romans 12:1 That living sacrifice is to be spent in loving and serving others, being the hands and feet of Jesus in this dark world, carrying His light, shining like a city on a hill. On p. 98 I have underlined "All rights are His - to direct my living so that He can most clearly reveal Himself through me." I must remember that language is no barrier for Him. Time and space are no barrier for Him. My feeble feet and weak back put no limitation on Him. He is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance and faith in His Son Jesus Christ. I am to go and be a living sacrifice, abiding in Him as the True Vine, the Source of all things, the Blessed Controller of all things, the Great Provider of all things. I am ashamed to be so weak, but the apostle Paul said "for when I am weak, then I am strong" HOW IS THAT?? Back up a verse before this in II Corinthians 12:9,10 "And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weakness, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distress, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake" He wants my surrender so He can show Himself faithful and do through His strength in me what I could never do in myself. Then, He will be shown off for Who He is!
I needed this!
In His love so amazing!