I got home about an hour ago from work. I worked the closing shift at Buckhead Domino’s. Buckhead is where Atlanta’s yuppies go to get drunk. It’s usually an eventful weekend. My back hurts.
Nonetheless, I wanted to write this post, so I got out from under my warm comforter to do just that.
I was reading other World Racers’ blogs earlier and as I usually do, was getting excited for this little journey we’re all on. Lately I’ve been doing lots of reading about Spritual Disciplines, Different Creative Expressions of God in Life, and plenty on the History, Culture, Structure, and current landscape of the Church. Sometimes I begin to question the wisdom of my impulse to exert 3 years or so on Fraternity Leadership and Beer Pong Championships rather than, say, Religious and Academic Study.
Then I think about three years, and I think about the magnitude of God, and I laugh. I have a docket of exploration backed up from here to eternity before I can begin to see the face of God. I’m here for such a time as this.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve told my friends that I’m doing the World Race and I’ve had several conversations about God with Fraternity Brothers. I’m not sure they would have had that experience if I had my nose in a book all through college. I’ve got great relationships and God is working in them. I am excited to continue to see Him work.
I’ve read a lot about the other World Racers leaving at the same time as me, and I’ve noticed some of them have been busy on the World Race ‘blogosphere’ as well. I’m excited to see the relationships that lay ahead in which God can work.
Sometimes, and I can’t be alone at 22 and nearing college graduation, I feel like I’m at some kind of turning point. I think when we feel that, rather than beginning to look for a place in the past, present or future where God’s presence seems to be the strongest, we simply need to praise Him for what He has done in the past, what He is doing in the present, what He will do in the future, and for who He continues to be throughout all three.
