I’ve only been an official World Race participant for about a week and in that short amount of time people have already begun to ask “what do you think will happen on this trip?”. To be honest I really don’t know. This is so far beyond anything I’ve ever done, or anything I ever expected to do that my brain cannot seem to form any idea as to what it will be like. At least not something that is complete or coherent.
Really my only expectations as I start this journey are that it is going to be hard, so far probably THE hardest thing I’ve done in my life, but it is also going to be amazing! This trip will be hard. As I said in my previous post I am someone who generally struggles with change, so traveling around the world for 11 months living in a new place each month will be extremely difficult. I’m sure there will be days when I will just want to turn around and come home back to where things are comfortable. But see that’s where the amazing comes in. Because even though I know this about myself and right now the idea of traveling for 11 months seems so huge, my God is bigger. This year will be hard, it will be filled with challenges, and possibly some disappointments and heartaches, but there will also be growth. Amazing, wonderful, out-of-your-comfort-zone growth that can only happen when a person is willing to wholeheartedly trust God.
That’s what I’m trying to do. Admittedly I fail more often than I succeed, but still I’m trying. My biggest expectation for this trip is that God will change me, grow me, and draw me closer to Him. Everything else is just a bonus. All the new people I’m going to meet, the friends, kids, teammates, squad mates, all of places I’ll visit, all the stories I’m going to collect that’s all extra stuff that just adds to the awesomeness of what happens when you follow God’s call.
So like I said my brain really has no frame of reference for what this will be like. I’m walking blindly into the unknown and trusting that my God will catch me and carry me through.
