It has been awhile since my last post. Here are some thoughts I have been having over the past few weeks.
Work has been consuming a great deal of my time and energy. With it getting ever closer to Training Camp and Launch I am finding it more and more difficult to make it through a day of work. My mind wanders to other countries I have not yet been. I think of all the great things we will do for Christ. I think of the fundraising still needed and the work involved with it. I think “is it worth staying in my job”, and getting more and more miserable as the days pass? I find myself more frustrated, tired, and easily angered by staff and customers. LORD, what should I do?
I am finding it more and more difficult to let go of my worldly possessions. I worked hard and earned them. Why can’t I keep them? I love my electronics and my kitchen tools and appliances. there are many gifts and other not so easily acquired items, that I am grateful to have. I have gathered these things to build a nice home, in hopes to share them with others and possibly a family. I really like stuff.
I need to get my head in the right place. I am going to be living out of a backpack and in places I never thought I would call home. People will be there with me, but it will be hard. I need to be more focused on what God wants me doing and less on my comfort and enjoyment. I have to get out of the pattern I have been in to change my heart and mind. It is harder to change when you are still in the same place with the same routine. Sometimes a person needs to leave his environment to change his habits.
Over these last few months I pray that God will change me, inside and out, to be prepared for the upcoming year. Preparing me for what will come after the year. It is no longer about my desires, my thoughts, my things, or my desires. It is all about the LORD and his ways. I need to lose myself and find GOD’s mindset in preparation for the World Race.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord ’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.” (Isaiah 55:8-13 NIV)
Anything I do for the Lords sake will not be empty or in vein. They will acomplish something, even if I never see the results. His ways are higher than mine. His thought are higher. It is no longer about my problems, frustrations, or things. Everything needs to be about the task set forth to share that Jesus can change everything. He can make you complete. His death has bought you eternal life, if you only believe.
I am less then three months away from Training camp. This time of fellowship with people I have only messaged or read about on Facebook, will bond us together. We will learn about the things we will do on the race and more of what to expect. Many questions we have will be answered and new ones will form. I can’t wait.
I am currently at 28% funded. My first May goal has been met. My next goal is 7,600 by June. I am doing great, thanks to all my supporters. If you or anyone you know wants to support me share this link: https://www.adventures.org/give/donate.asp?giveto=worldrace&desc=Dillon%20Seeley
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