I never thought I’d be doing this! My whole life I’ve seen myself as an ordinary person with an ordinary life and ordinary hopes and ordinary dreams. As you all know, my generation is one that is not easily satisfied. “There must be something more” I continue telling myself as I make my way to and from work each day. I vowed, as far back as I can remember, that I would never make money my top priority. I would never make things my number one pursuit. Now, as a young adult, I find myself idolizing money and wanting more things. I fall into this trap of making money my end goal, and every other choice I make is a means to that very end. I don’t want to obsess over obtaining a job that will define who I am. I don’t want my dreams to consist of all the things I can buy once I’m wealthy enough to afford them. I want to dream a little bit bigger, and I want to make those dreams come true. I want to dream of a better world. I want to dream of a world that I make a difference in, not just one that I merely live in.
Now, I know it’s silly to think that I’m anything special with 7.5 billion people to compete with, but what I’m beginning to realize in my wiser years is that it’s not about me. It’s not about what I can do for this world by my own brilliance, but what I can do for this world through God’s brilliance. I have a hard time believing that God created me to be the next Moses, or Noah, or Mother Mary, or any other biblical inspiration. However, it is very easy for me to believe that God did NOT create me to simply consume. I believe he created me to give. It’s so easy to become preoccupied in what I can gain from other people and what I can plain gain from this world, but being the millennial I am, I can’t be satisfied with this. Is that such a bad thing? I refuse to accept that my role in this world is simply to go to work, make money, buy lots of things, and make some more money to pay for more things. I have therefore decided to take this leap into The World Race.
I believe that this trip will bring me closer to God and help me discover a new woman inside of me. A better one. One that can change the world, not by her own doing, but by God’s influence in her life. I don’t dream about consuming this world; I dream about building it up.
Good luck me!
