Crazy.
The definition of this informal adjective is : out of ones mind.
Hey everyone! My name is Brooke, I’m 23 and I’m here to tell you about this journey God and I are on. When I was younger, I always wondered what it would be like to grow up with lots of money, be rich, and have all of the toys and gadgets every kid dreamed of. My wonders of money became reality when I finally got a job. I held most of it for myself, with the occasional dollar tossed to someone that was homeless, but never enough to say “God, you can have it all.” I enjoyed working for the simple fact of knowing I would be getting a paycheck at the end of a couple weeks and could spend it however I chose.
Then God rocked my world. He called to a mission trip summer of 2013 with an organization called AIM. I was gone for 2 months in Thailand. The challenge there was raising money. This was my first real experience fundraising by myself. I was giving up the opportunity to work full time in the summer, and I had no other option but to start trusting God. That’s when someone called me “crazy.”
A year later, God called me to the LA dream center for 9 months, yet again giving up a pay raise and new job title. I had to raise $6,000 and learn to continue to depend on God. All odds stood against me, and many people began to speak the word crazy over me. They would tell me it would be impossible and if God really cared for me then he wouldn’t make me give up everything I had to come out to LA. At the end of my fist year, God called me back to return as a second year. Once again, that meant no job. If people didn’t think I was out of mind already, they certainly would when I would announce this last October that I got accepted to this new journey called the world race. An 11 month, 11 country, $16,561 journey of serving Jesus and his people.
So what am I trying to say here? Lately I’ve been asked “Brooke, are you sure this is what God is calling you to do? Give up yet another year of not working? Depend on the support of others?” So many questions.
At 23, I will be leaving to go all over the world, not for myself, but for Jesus. Yes, I am giving up working for the 3rd year in a row, yes I am committing myself to a 3rd year of remaining single, a 3rd year of leaving family and friend and yes, sometimes I really do feel out of mind and think I am crazy. But if there’s one thing I know, it’s Gods faithfulness and I am completely okay with be crazy on fire and in love with God wherever he takes me, and whatever sacrifices might come my way.
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