After being home for almost 2 months, some would say I still have lived the World Race lifestyle. This time, though, it has been with my new husband. Spending our first weeks of marriage at different people’s houses, getting readjusted to America and getting adjusted to marriage has been a challenge. Being back in America has been a challenge. Not being on the race with my constant Christian support system and community has been hard. Not seeing different landscapes has been hard. Having no one around me understand what I just did has been hard. But the hardest thing for me has been not having ministry. I have been mentally, spiritually and intellectually bored out of my mind.
“God, what am I supposed to be doing to make a difference while I am off of the race?”
My husband and I are going to South AFrica tomorrow for one month and then going to Germany for 2 – 3 months to visit his family before returning to the states. During that time, God has given me my ministry. A project. I will be starting a blog for women called “Hearts Without Borders”. I want to create a space where women feel like they can freely express their hearts without judgement. I want women’s hearts to have no boundaries with what can and can not be shared. I hope to accomplish that through sharing my own heart and giving women the opportunity to do the same.
I have purchased the website, am creating a logo and will be starting to organize it while being on the plane to South Africa. Please pray that God shows me how and when to get everything up and running and that it is His words and ways flowing out of me. I am excited to have a project of my own that I can do while traveling anywhere. Even though it is a big commitment, I am ready for something of my own. I am ready to do what God has for me in a fresh, new way.
Love you all! Stay posted for the link to the new blog soon 🙂
<3
Christel Thoden 🙂
