Wanderlust:
noun
a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
I know its super cheesy to start off with a definition. All I am missing is a stock photo of landscape and Helvetica text. I have chosen to kick off with cheesy regardless because of how perfectly that word sums up how I feel about life. I was born and raised in central Kentucky but I always wanted to see more. Though I also went to college there I never had the desire live there in my adult life. The world was unexplored and I wanted to see it all.
Now the time has come. I am going to 11 countries in 11 months over 3 different continents. Its not like I have never been out of the country or ever ventured out of my ‘small town box’. My junior year of highschool I went on a missions trip to Honduras (which I will get to visit again on the race), I spent 2 weeks in Paris for an art history course in college, and in the past 2.5 years I have moved 7 times all around the east side of the US working in various Theatre settings. But my wanderlust has not been quenched.
All the gypsy soul stuff aside I should now address the more important issue: missions. I grew up in a Christian home and God has always been a part of my life. But that being said my faith was never something that I took lightly or tagged onto just because its what my parents did or it is how I was raised. I have walked through seasons of doubt and questioning but even through the darkest of those times I could never deny that God was real. That being said I have never wanted my faith to look like some of the stagnant Christianity that I have seen. Why can’t following God be a crazy wild adventure?
From the moment I heard about the World Race I knew it was something that I wanted to do. And in the 2.5 year period from when I heard about it to now as I am actually going it has never been far from my mind. I want to see God in the world, I want to play with children and climb mountains and build churches and just love people. I want to know Him and make Him known and show His love to all people everywhere. I want to wander the world.
His faithfulness has been so abundantly clear to me these past months and even as I look back at opportunities that I stumbled in to I can see His purpose in them. I am so beyond excited to see what He has for me to do and see and learn of the course of this preparation process and not to mention the race itself!
