The Traveler’s Journal: Self Announcement
My life has been planned. And it seems like college has taken the backseat. I’ve been told not to do the gap year but I’ve also been told to do what is right. And if God is telling me yes then that’s what I’m doing. My gap year doesn’t consist of me saving for college and it doesn’t consist of me settling with my life. My gap year is a bit different.
The plan is a nine month missions trip and I leave in October. Guatemala, Malawi, and Thailand; I’ll be staying in each for three months. As for the mission: I will be doing anything that is needed from painting houses to being a safe haven for humans forced into prostitution.
I will learn about so many cultures and languages along the way as well so, I guess, education isn’t completely out this next year. I will learn from experience in Guatemala, Thailand, and Malawi, I Will learn how to exchange different currencies, I will learn of different culture, and most importantly, I will learn how to love people the way Christ has described time after time. Honestly the only thing left to be worried about is money and even then, I have faith that it will all work out.
This is all so unreal, Completely crazy and yet so right. My future has been planned. College is in the backseat and adventure in the front. It’s time to step up. It’s time to be brave with my life. And it’s time to put my faith into something bigger.
“God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called” -Smith Wigglesworth
