Just go (Luke 10:1-11, 16-20)

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I am definitely an Enneagram type one. When I am unprepared for some task or challenge, it is a devastating blow. I still have nightmares about arriving at school without the necessary texts, or losing my room assignments, or generally wandering about school with an impending sense of doom that I will be late and unprepared.